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well as heterogenic risk concentration. There is an assumption that economic systems have different orders for both the …
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I show that countercyclical earnings dynamics can have quantitatively important effects on saving and portfolio choice decisions over the life cycle. During expansions (recessions) when expected future earnings growth is high (low), households save less (more) and also invest a higher (lower)...
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Using a long-panel dataset of Japanese firms that contains firm-level sales forecasts, we provide evidence on firm-level uncertainty and imperfect information over their life cycle. We find that firms make non-negligible and positively correlated forecast errors. However, they make more precise...
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We derive the optimal portfolio for an investor with increasing relative risk aversion in a complete continuous …-time securities market. The IRRA assumption helps to mitigate the criticism of constant relative risk aversion that it implies an …
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To effectively cope with an unexpected, large, and negative income shock, I propose a life-cycle model for income risk … generalizing the Arrow-Debreu price with income risk premium …
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holdings for young households. Moreover, countercyclical earnings risk quantitatively affects savings and portfolio choice …I show that countercyclical earnings risk alone can cause countercyclical consumption risk and generate moderate stock … risk and investigate how consumption risk and households' portfolio allocations and consumption change in response to …
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-Bewley-Huggett framework augmented to include fertility decisions and infertility risk. Building on Becker and Tomes (1976), I model fertility … earnings risk lead to a postponement in births by young households, and are associated with a decline in the total number of … births. The linkage between earnings risk and fertility patterns highlights the important role that labor market conditions …
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when households have preferences with high labor supply elasticity, make dynamic savings decisions, and policies have … labor productivity risk, show that it has a wealth distribution that matches the data well, and then use it to characterize …
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when households have preferences with high labor supply elasticity, make dynamic savings decisions, and policies have … labor productivity risk, show that it has a wealth distribution that matches the data well, and then use it to characterize …
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plans typically must fund spending from accumulated savings. This leads to the risk of depleting these savings, i ….e.portfolio depletion risk. We analyze the management of this risk through life cycle optimal dynamic asset allocation, including the … objective functions are tested and compared. We focus on the risk of portfolio depletion at the terminal date, using such …
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