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-term unemployment spells to have permanent effects on subsequent labor income prospects. The risk of losing future labor income could …
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Using detailed micro-level data, we show that individuals' beliefs about climate change influence their choice and level of flood insurance coverage. Our empirical strategy exploits the heterogeneous impact of widening partisan polarization on climate change beliefs after the 2016 general...
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Financial risk and longevity risk are the main risks affecting pension income. This paper analyses gender differences … related to how financial risk taking and survival expectations are correlated. We analyse data from the “Survey of Health …, Ageing and Retirement in Europe” (SHARE) database and find a significant gender gap in self-assessed risk tolerance …
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The revolving credit available to consumers changes substantially over the business cycle, life cycle, and for individuals. We show that debt changes at the same time as credit, so credit utilization is remarkably stable. From ages 20-40, for example, credit card limits grow by more than 700...
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This paper examines the optimal allocation of risk across generations whose savings mix is subject to illiquidity in … thus lowers the benefits of risk-sharing. Higher illiquidity then may justify higher levels of risk sharing to compensate …
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major disaster region underweight disaster zone stocks to a much greater degree than distant managers and that this aversion … to disaster zone stocks is related to a salience bias that decreases over time and distance from the disaster, rather …
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model with heterogeneous agents, we reveal the existence of an extreme weather risk premium in the cross-section of stock … risk factors from standard asset pricing models nor by firm characteristics. Our results reveal a novel link between … climate risk and firm value. …
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In this paper, we first provide a brief exposition of the simplest version of the selfish life cycle model or hypothesis, which is undoubtedly the most widely used theoretical model of household behavior in economics, and then survey the literature on household saving behavior in Japan (with...
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The revolving credit available to consumers changes substantially over the business cycle, life cycle, and for individuals. We show that debt changes at the same time as credit, so credit utilization is remarkably stable. From ages 20–40, for example, credit card limits grow by more than 700...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012931109