uninsured capital income risk, and suffer from an information-processing capacity constraint. For given attention devoted to … capital income risk, we solve for the optimal consumption-saving choices and show that the expected welfare is increasing with … households would pay more attention to capital income risk if they have (i) lower initial wealth endowment, (ii) lower marginal …

theoretical predictions, we find that an increase in income risk is associated with higher savings for loss-averse individuals … the internal margin, i.e., the strength, of loss aversion, and empirically study the relation between income risk …, experimentally elicited loss aversion and precautionary savings. We do so using a sample of 640 individuals from the low-income …

empirically study the relation between income risk, experimentally elicited loss aversion, and precautionary savings. We do so … subject to substantial income risk. In line with the theoretical predictions, we find that an increase in income risk is … aversion. An accompanying laboratory experiment confirms that an exogenous increase in income risk causally leads to this …

Using detailed micro-data, this paper documents that households with lower income risk (and higher income levels … designed to account for the empirically observed negative correlation between income levels and income risk. This interaction … labor income risk. Otherwise, the effects of income risk are masked by wealth effects. In neither case, the MPC depends on …

persistence. -- Precautionary savings ; unemployment insurance ; long-term unemployment ; income uncertainty … (2005). We extend it by unemployment risk using Markov chains to model the transition between different employment states … systems as those established in the EU are able to offset the negative impact of unemployment risk on the portfolio …

Households can rely on private savings or on public unemployment insurance to hedge against the risk of becoming … risk on households’ equity holdings. When incorporating long-term unemployment, the US-equity share drops. This negative … significantly alter portfolio decisions. We show that different responses of portfolios to unemployment risk can be attributed to …

significant effects of precautionary savings on the consumption-savings decision. As a result of a doubling of transitory income …. -- Consumption-savings decision ; interest rate elasticity of savings ; income uncertainty …This paper empirically investigates the effects of changes in the interest rate as well as transitory income …

We investigate whether US households possess advance information about their future income and what this means for … requires only panel data on consumption and income. Using the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, we find-in contrast to the … incomplete markets model and find that advance information reduces households' income forecast errors by 15%. Our estimation …

: financial risk and environmental risk. The analysis is carried out using time series data for six advanced economies in the … period 1965-2007. The results support the theoretical conclusions that both financial risk alone and the interaction between … empirical analysis performed with one-argument utility functions. Finally, we provide new estimates of indexes of relative risk …