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uninsured capital income risk, and suffer from an information-processing capacity constraint. For given attention devoted to … capital income risk, we solve for the optimal consumption-saving choices and show that the expected welfare is increasing with … capacity, assuming a relative risk aversion degree larger than unity. Furthermore, we solve for attention choice and find that …
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of savings, precautionary savings, loss aversion, and risk. We provide the relevant theory, followed by empirical tests …We consider a simple, two period, consumption-savings model with future income uncertainty that examines the interplay … present bias. We predict, and show empirically, that loss aversion reduces savings, and that those who are more loss averse …
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We study optimal savings in continuous time with exogenous transitions between employment and unemployment as the only …
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Most economic models assume that time preferences are stable over time, but the evidence on their long-term stability is lacking. We study whether and how time preferences change over the life cycle, exploiting representative long-term panel data. We provide new evidence that discount rates...
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study how cash in hand influences decisions in a different but very important domain: savings. Savings accounts are a … promising tool for reducing poverty, but the use of savings accounts is often puzzlingly low. Holding on to cash that needs to … be physically deposited into a savings account may increase the psychological costs of saving. This study experimentally …
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Incomplete markets models imply heterogeneous household savings behaviour which in turn generates pecuniary … in the population, these savings externalities may contribute to inequality. Working with an open economy heterogenous … earnings processes of British households with university and non-university educated heads entail savings externalities that …
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for the future (global savings glut). Low growth is linked to slowing population growth and a declining marginal …, from the perspective of Austrian business cycle theory, interest rates were step by step decreased by central banks to … nihilo and the need of time to produce capital invalidates the IS identity assumed in the Keynesian theory to hold …
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Rising income inequality since the 1980s in the United States has generated a substantial increase in saving by the top of the income distribution, which we call the saving glut of the rich. The saving glut of the rich has been as large as the global saving glut, and it has not been associated...
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paper focuses on indirect savings. Public administrations that do not procure directly through a central procurement agency … more complex goods. Accounting for indirect savings increases the estimate of direct ones …
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intergenerational inequality aversion and for risk aversion. If growth increases (reduces) intra-generational inequality, the SDR is …
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