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Idiosyncratic risk, aggregate risk, and the welfare effects of social security
Harenberg, Daniel; Ludwig, Alexander - 2017 - This Version: December 1, 2017
productivity and aggregate business cycle risk. We show analytically that the whole welfare benefit from joint insurance against … both risks is greater than the sum of benefits from insurance against the isolated risk components. One reason is the … convexity of the welfare gain in total risk. The other reason is a direct risk interaction which amplifies the utility losses …
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Idiosyncratic risk, aggregate risk, and the welfare effects of social security
Harenberg, Daniel; Ludwig, Alexander - 2018 - This version: December 1, 2017
productivity and aggregate business cycle risk. We show analytically that the whole welfare benefit from joint insurance against … both risks is greater than the sum of benefits from insurance against the isolated risk components. One reason is the … convexity of the welfare gain in total risk. The other reason is a direct risk interaction which amplifies the utility losses …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011816319
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Subsidizing risk prevention
Menegatti, Mario - In: Journal of economics 134 (2021) 2, pp. 175-193
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Means testing and Social Security in the United States
Bagchi, Shantanu - In: International studies of economics 19 (2024) 1, pp. 68-91
This paper uses a heterogeneous-agent overlapping-generations model to examine the fiscal and distributional consequences of introducing a means test in US Social Security. I find that a means test, that is, conditioning benefit payments on a household's earnings or assets, leads to a higher...
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When all else fails : government as the ultimate risk manager
Moss, David A. - 2002
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Social security financing-informing decisions for uncertain futures
Chin, Audrey - 1988
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External financing of social protection : opportunities and risks
Holmqvist, Göran - In: Development policy review 30 (2012) 1, pp. 5-27
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Organizational encounters with risk
Hutter, Bridget M. (contributor); Power, Michael (contributor) - 2005 - 1. publ.
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Perspectives on risk and governance
Sinha, Anand K. - In: Macroeconomics and finance in emerging market economies 6 (2013) 2, pp. 295-309
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Performance and risk taking under threat of elimination
Adams, Nathan R.; Waddell, Glen R. - 2017
increases in risk taking. Where we can separately identify changes in risk-independent performance and risk taking, our … increases in risk taking. These effects are concentrated among those closest to the margin of elimination and among lower …
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