We use a life cycle model of consumption and portfolio choice to study the effects of social security on the investment decisions of households for the European case. Our model is mainly based on the one developed by Cocco, Gomes, and Maenhout (2005). We extend it by unemployment risk using...

Recent research has shown that 'rich' households save at much higher rates than others (see Carroll (2000); Dynan Skinner and Zeldes (1996); Gentry and Hubbard (1998); Huggett (1996); Quadrini (1999)) This paper documents another large difference between the rich and the rest of the population:...

An economy in which deposit-taking banks of a Diamond/ Dybvig style and an asset market coexist is modelled. Firstly, within this framework we characterize distinct financial systems depending on the fraction of households with direct investment opportunities that are less efficient than those...

Das Problem der Ausschüttungspolitik und die damit verbundene Frage der Beein- flussung der Vermögenspositionen der Residualanspruchsberechtigten genießt in der Fachwelt hohe Aufmerksamkeit, die sich in der Anzahl der dieses Problem thematisierenden Publikationen ausdrückt. Dabei können die...