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Risk and saving in two-person households : more scope for precautionary saving
Apps, Patricia; Andrienko, Yuri; Rees, Ray - 2012
The existing literature suggests that when the saving decision of two-earner households under risk is analysed, standard results on the existence of precautionary saving no longer apply: precautionary saving is obtained if and only if very stringent conditions hold. This paper shows that when...
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Hidden insurance in a moral hazard economy
Bertola, Giuseppe; Koeniger, Winfried - 2013
We consider an economy where individuals privately choose effort and trade competitively priced securities that pay off with effort-determined probability. We show that if insurance against a negative shock is sufficiently incomplete, then standard functional form restrictions ensure that...
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The dynamics of market insurance, insurable assets, and wealth accumulation
Koeniger, Winfried - 2002
We analyze dynamic interactions between market insurance, the stock of insurable assets and liquid wealth accumulation in a model with non-durable and durable consumption. The stock of the durable is exposed to risk against which households can insure. Since the model does not have a closed form...
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Higher order risk preferences: new experimental measures, determinants and field behavior
Schneider, Sebastian O.; Sutter, Matthias - 2020
We use a novel method to elicit and measure higher order risk preferences (prudence and temperance) in an experiment …-friendly behavior, and health status, including addictive behavior. Most importantly, we show that dropping prudence and temperance from … prudence - are strongly related to adolescents' field behavior, including their financial decision making, eco …
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Short-time work and precautionary savings
Dengler, Thomas; Gehrke, Britta - 2021
In the Covid-19 crisis, most OECD countries use short-time work schemes (subsidized working time reductions) to preserve employment relationships. This paper studies whether short-time work can save jobs through stabilizing aggregate demand in recessions. We build a New Keynesian model with...
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Optimal social insurance and rising labor market risk
Krebs, Tom; Scheffel, Martin - 2019
This paper analyzes the optimal response of the social insurance system to a rise in labor market risk. To this end, we develop a tractable macroeconomic model with risk-free physical capital, risky human capital (labor market risk) and unobservable effort choice affecting the distribution of...
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Can a deportation policy backfire?
Stark, Oded; Byra, Lukasz - 2019
Drawing on a model in which utility is derived from consumption and effort (labor supply), we ask how the deportation of a number of undocumented migrants influences the decisions regarding labor supply, consumption, and savings of the remaining undocumented migrants. We assume that the...
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Job stability, earnings dynamics, and life-cycle savings
Kuhn, Moritz; Ploj, Gašper - 2020
Labor markets are characterized by large heterogeneity in job stability. Some workers hold lifetime jobs, whereas others cycle repeatedly in and out of employment. This paper explores the economic consequences of such heterogeneity. Using Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF) data, we document a...
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Political uncertainty and household savings
Aaberge, Rolf; Liu, Kai; Zhu, Yu - 2014
Despite macroeconomic evidence pointing to a negative aggregate consumption response due to political uncertainty, few papers have used microeconomic panel data to analyze how households adjust their consumption after an uncertainty shock. We study household savings and expenditure adjustment...
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Income uncertainty and household savings in China
Chamon, Marcos; Liu, Kai; Prasad, Eswar S. - 2010
China's household saving rate has increased markedly since the mid-1990s and the agesaving profile has become U-shaped. Using a panel of urban Chinese households covering 1989-2006, we document a sharp increase in income uncertainty. While the permanent variance of household income was stable,...
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