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Our understanding of risk preferences can be sharpened by considering their evolutionary basis. The existing literature has focused on two sources of risk: idiosyncratic risk and aggregate risk. We introduce a new source of risk, heritable risk, in which there is a positive correlation between...
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agents' expectations from tendency surveys. First, we design a genetic programming experiment to derive mathematical …
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We apply the two-step machine-learning method proposed by Claveria et al. (2021) to generate country-specific sentiment indicators that provide estimates of year-on-year GDP growth rates. In the first step, by means of genetic programming, business and consumer expectations are evolved to derive...
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agents' expectations from tendency surveys. First, we design a genetic programming experiment to derive mathematical …
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We measure risk attitudes in 30 different countries in a controlled, incentivized experiment (N = 3025). At the … personal income within countries. We show that this paradox can be explained by unified growth theory. These results are …
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I characterize a dynamic economy under general distributions of households' risk tolerance, endowments, and beliefs about long-term growth. As the economy expands and the stock market rises (a) the fraction of households with declining consumption-share increases; (b) the wealth-share of high...
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I characterize a dynamic economy under general distributions of households' risk tolerance, endowments, and beliefs about long-term growth. As the economy expands and the stock market rises (a) the fraction of households with declining consumption-share increases; (b) the wealth-share of high...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012894994
I characterize a dynamic economy under general distributions of households' risk tolerance, endowments, and beliefs about long-term growth. As the economy expands and the stock market rises (a) the fraction of households with declining consumption-share increases; (b) the wealth-share of high...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012896656
with the theory of expected utility. The present study reviews recent trends in the modeling of decision theories, with a … particular focus on the distinctive features of prospect theory. The novel contribution of this study is an empirical analysis of … study of the dissertation investigates the effect of income on democracy, based on the premise that the theory of critical …
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