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This paper examines how households should optimally allocate their portfolio choices between risky stocks and risk … that, with homothetic utility, the allocation should be roughly independent of a household's permanent income. The actual …
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This paper re-examines the classic question of how a household should optimally allocate its portfolio between risky … stocks and risk-free bonds over its lifecycle. We show that allowing for the wage indexation of social security benefits …
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market risk when they approach retirement. The authors show how long-run labor income risk helps explain this evidence …. Moreover, they discuss the effect of long-run labor income risk on the valuation of pension plan obligations, their funding …
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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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or long-term unemployment, may occur during working years. Personal disaster risk alters lifetime ex-ante investment … characterizes rare disasters, results in lower risk-taking at the beginning of working life, and is crucial in order to match the …
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NBER Bulletin on Aging and Health by email. This paper re-examines the classic question of how a household should optimally … allocate its portfolio between risky stocks and risk-free bonds over its lifecycle. We show that allowing for the wage …
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This paper re-examines the classic question of how a household should optimally allocate its portfolio between risky … stocks and risk-free bonds over its lifecycle. We show that allowing for the wage indexation of social security benefits …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461633