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We present a tractable model of the effects of nonfinancial risk on intertemporal choice. Our purpose is to provide a simple framework that can be adopted in fields like representative-agent macroeconomics, corporate finance, or political economy, where most modelers have chosen not to...
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We model the motives for residents of a country to hold foreign assets, including the precautionary motive that has been omitted from much previous literature as intractable. Our model captures many of the principal insights from the existing specialized literature on the precautionary motive,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013151293
We model the motives for residents of a country to hold foreign assets, including the precautionary motive that has been omitted from much previous literature as intractable. Our model captures many of the principal insights from the existing specialized literature on the precautionary motive,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013155620
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...
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, suggesting that precautionary savings are central to understanding the effects of cash on credit risk …
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We present a tractable model of the effects of nonfinancial risk on intertemporal choice. Our purpose is to provide a simple framework that can be adopted in fields like representative-agent macroeconomics, corporate finance, or political economy, where most modelers have chosen not to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463386
We model the motives for residents of a country to hold foreign assets, including the precautionary motive that has been omitted from much previous literature as intractable. Our model captures many of the principal insights from the existing specialized literature on the precautionary motive,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463421
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, suggesting that precautionary savings are central to understanding the effects of cash on credit risk …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461663
associated increase in savings is close to linear in wealth. While we are unable to match the dispersion of wealth in the data …We study the role an illiquid durable consumption good plays in determining the level of precautionary savings and the … distribution of wealth in a standard Aiyagari model (i.e. a model with heterogeneous agents, idiosyncratic uncertainty, and …
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