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The design of pension schemes is crucial in determining savings behavior. The impact of pension schemes on saving rates across countries remains to be an intriguing empirical question considering the complicated nature of the relationship between saving patterns and pension wealth. This paper...
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This paper contributes to the literature on the effects of uncertainty on household saving – a long-standing and … extensively explored topic yet leaving a number of issues inconclusive. It concentrates on the labor income uncertainty by … addressing saving against unemployment risk in terms of changes in credit supply and households’ financial wealth. Time series …
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Idiosyncratic labor incomes are typically modeled either by stochastic processes with heterogeneous income profiles (HIPs) or restricted income profiles (RIPs). The HIP assumes that individual labor income grows deterministically at an unobserved rate and contains a persistent but stationary...
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Are households more likely to be homeowners when “housing risk” is higher? We show that home-ownership rates and loan-to-value (LTV ) ratios at the city level are strongly negatively correlated with local house price volatility. However, causal inference is confounded by house price levels,...
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2020. We also find that the magnitude of the impact of COVID-19 risk is higher for borrowers with lower credit ratings and …
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. However, policies that seek to improve access to credit for women and youth remain a priority. …
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