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Testing for Restricted Stochastic Dominance

Davidson, Russell; Duclos, Jean-Yves - 2006

Asymptotic and bootstrap tests are studied for testing whether there is a relation of stochastic dominance between two distributions. These tests have a null hypothesis of nondominance, with the advantage that, if this null is rejected, then all that is left is dominance. This also leads us to...

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An Oaxaca Decomposition for Nonlinear Models

Bazen, Stephen - 2016

The widely used Oaxaca decomposition applies to linear models. Extending it to commonly used nonlinear models such as duration models is not straightforward. This paper shows that the original decomposition that uses a linear model can also be obtained by an application of the mean value...

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Portfolio Allocation, Income Uncertainty and Households' Flight from Risk

Brown, Sarah - 2016

households reduce their financial risk exposure when confronted with background risk. Our novel modelling approach – termed a … risk, and is unique in recovering for, any given risky asset class, the shares that are reallocated to a safer asset … category. Background risk exerts a significant impact on household portfolios, resulting in a 'flight from risk', away from …

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Skewness Expectations and Portfolio Choice

Drerup, Tilman H.; Wibral, Matthias; Zimpelmann, Christian - 2022

Many models of investor behavior predict that investors prefer assets that they believe to have positively skewed return distributions. We provide a direct test of this prediction in a representative sample of the Dutch population. Using individual-level data on return expectations for a broad...

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Circumstantial Risk : Impact of Future Tax Evasion and Labor Supply Opportunities on Risk Exposure

Doerrenberg, Philipp - 2014

This paper examines whether risk-taking in a lottery depends on the opportunity to respond to the lottery outcome …/or extra labor effort. We find strong evidence that ex-post access to labor opportunities reduces ex-ante risk willingness … while access to tax evasion has no effect on risk behavior. We discuss possible explanations for this result based on the …

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On Social Preferences and the Intensity of Risk Aversion

Stark, Oded - 2019

We study the relative risk aversion of an individual with particular social preferences: his wellbeing is influenced by …, the individual becomes more risk averse when he rises in the wealth hierarchy. Second, if the individual's level of … intensification is strong enough, then the individual becomes less risk averse: the individual's desire to advance further in the …

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Urban-Rural Consumption Inequality in China from 1988 to 2002 : Evidence from Quantile Regression Decomposition

Qu, Zhaopeng (Frank); Zhao, Zhong - 2021

One of the most notable social phenomena in China is the large urban-rural disparity. There are many studies of it, but most of them focus on income or earnings inequality. In this paper, we investigate the consumption disparity between urban and rural households in China from 1988 to 2002. Our...

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Cross-National Differences in Wealth Portfolios at the Intensive Margin : Is There a Role for Policy?

Doorley, Karina - 2014

Using harmonized wealth data and a novel decomposition approach in this literature, we show that cohort effects exist in the income profiles of asset and debt portfolios for a sample of European countries, the U.S. and Canada. We find that the association between household wealth portfolios at...

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Testing CAPM with a Large Number of Assets

Pesaran, M. Hashem - 2012

This paper is concerned with testing the time series implications of the capital asset pricing model (CAPM) due to Sharpe (1964) and Lintner (1965), when the number of securities, N, is large relative to the time dimension, T, of the return series. In the case of cross-sectionally correlated...

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Identification and Decompositions in Probit and Logit Models

Choe, Chung - 2017

Probit and logit models typically require a normalization on the error variance for model identification. This paper shows that in the context of sample mean probability decompositions, error variance normalizations preclude estimation of the effects of group differences in the latent variable...

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