We use a calibrated life-cycle model with earnings risk and liquidity constraints to study the role of tax-deferred retirement accounts (TDAs) in life cycle savings behavior. We find that they promote higher wealth accumulation but not higher net savings. Consumption increases mostly during...

We utilize an overlapping generations model with endogenous production and incomplete markets to quantify the distortionary costs associated with financing the increase in government expenditures directed to investments in the private sector in 2008 and 2009 (also known as ‘the bailout’),...

We solve and estimate a life-cycle model with earnings risk and liquidity constraints in the presence of tax-deferred retirement accounts (TDAs). We explicitly consider two very different types of households (with TDAs): direct and indirect stockholders. The latter hold stocks only through TDAs...