This paper reviews household property risk management and estimates normatively optimal choice under theoretical assumptions. Although risk retention limits are common in the financial planning industry, estimates of optimal risk retention that include both financial and human wealth far exceed...

Over the past 20 years, a trend toward index fund investing has emerged. Currently, more mutual fund assets are indexed to the S&P 500 than any other index. Prior research on downward-sloping demand curves suggests that widespread acceptance of S&P 500 index investing may push prices of...

We use a finite mixture model to identify latent submarkets from household demographics that estimates a separate hedonic regression equation for each submarket. The method is a relatively robust empirical tool to extract submarkets from demographic information with far less effort than...