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This paper derives optimal life cycle portfolio asset allocations as well as annuity purchases trajectories for a consumer who can select her hours of work and also her retirement age. Using a realistically-calibrated model with stochastic mortality and uncertain labor income, we extend the...
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We propose a method for constructing price indices when retailers use periodic sales to price-discriminate amongst heterogeneous customers. To do so, we introduce a model in which Loyal customers buy one brand and do not strategically time purchases, while Bargain Hunters always pay the lowest...
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We analyze optimal policy when consumers of energy-using durables undervalue energy costs relative to their private optima. First, there is an Internality Dividend from Externality Taxes: aside from reducing externalities, they also offset distortions from underinvestment in energy efficiency....
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This paper incorporates two empirically-grounded insights into a dynamic life cycle portfolio choice model: the fact that investors forego the opportunity to accumulate job-specific skills when they spend time managing their own money, and the observation that efficiency in financial decision...
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We consider demand systems for utility-maximizing consumers facing general budget constraints whose utilities are …. We define demand generating functions (DGF) whose subgradients with respect to these perturbations are convex hulls of … smooth in their arguments. We also give sufficient conditions for integrability of perturbed demand. Our analysis provides a …
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choice, context-dependent willingness to pay, balance of qualities in desirable goods, and shifts in demand toward low … quality goods when all prices in a category rise. We then apply the model to study discounts and sales, and to explain demand …
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We test the effectiveness of self-help peer groups as a commitment device for precautionary savings, through two randomized field experiments among 2,687 microentrepreneurs in Chile. The first experiment finds that self-help peer groups are a powerful tool to increase savings (the number of...
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for low prices when he is employed than when he is unemployed. In response to the increase in demand and prices, other … of employment on demand and prices and show that they are sufficiently strong to generate multiple rational expectations …
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In this paper we develop an approach to measuring inequality and poverty that recognizes the fact that individuals within households may have both different preferences and differential access to resources. We argue that a measure based on estimates of the sharing rule is inadequate as an...
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We explore household consumption surrounding federal tax returns filings and refunds receipt to test various theories of consumption. Because uncertainty regarding the refund is resolved at filing, precautionary savings theory predicts an increase in consumption at this date. Contrary to this...
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