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This paper provides a joint analysis of household stockholding participation, stock location among stockholding modes … through retirement accounts only. Household characteristics influence stockholding through retirement accounts conditional on …
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We investigate, using the 2002 US Health and Retirement Study, the factors influencing individuals' insecurity and expectations about terrorism, and study the effects these last have on households' portfolio choices and spending patterns. We find that females, the religiously devout, those...
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We investigate US households' direct investment in stocks, bonds and liquid accounts and their foreign counterparts, in order to identify the different participation hurdles affecting asset investment domestically and overseas. To this end, we estimate a trivariate probit model with three...
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through Medicare and the associated reduction in health-related background risk on financial risk-taking. Given the onset of …. Hence, our results indicate that a reduction in background risk induces financial risk-taking in individuals for whom …
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This paper provides a joint analysis of household stockholding participation, stock location among stockholding modes … through retirement accounts only. Household characteristics influence stockholding through retirement accounts conditional on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005007629
, and interest rate risk. It uses a zero-profit condition for mortgage lenders to solve for equilibrium mortgage rates given …-to-value ratios, and mortgage affordability measures on mortgage premia and default. Heterogeneity in borrowers' labor income risk is …This paper solves a dynamic model of households' mortgage decisions incorporating labor income, house price, inflation …
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This paper analyzes the risk properties of typical asset-backed securities (ABS), like CDOs or MBS, relying on a model …, and macro factor dependencies. Using a two-dimensional loss decomposition as a new metric, the risk properties of … Carlo Simulation, we find that the risk properties of ABS differ significantly and systematically from those of straight …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010958590
Modern bank management comprises both classical lending business and transfer of asset risk to capital markets through … securitization. Sound knowledge of the risks involved in securitization transactions is a prerequisite for solid risk management …. This paper aims to resolve a part of the opaqueness surrounding credit-risk allocation to tranches that represent claims of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010958755
This paper analyzes the risk properties of typical asset-backed securities (ABS), like CDOs or MBS, relying on a model …, and macro factor dependencies. Using a two-dimensional loss decomposition as a new metric, the risk properties of … Carlo Simulation, we find that the risk properties of ABS differ significantly and systematically from those of straight …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004969023
Modern bank management comprises both classical lending business and transfer of asset risk to capital markets through … securitization. Sound knowledge of the risks involved in securitization transactions is a prerequisite for solid risk management …. This paper aims to resolve a part of the opaqueness surrounding credit-risk allocation to tranches that represent claims of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005007636