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substantial parameter uncertainty. We study the bias and MSE of estimators of tail probabilities and percentiles, with focus on 1 … of addressing parameter uncertainty, is seen to double the estimation bias. A bias corrected estimator is thus proposed …
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Assessing the importance of uninsurable wage risk for individual financial choices faces two challenges. First, the identification of the marginal effect requires a measure of at least one component of risk that cannot be diversified or avoided. Moreover, measures of uninsurable wage risk must...
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This paper proposes a direct and robust method to quantify economic uncertainty. Cap and floor options are empirically … used to gauge uncertainty about future interest rates. The developed measure is shown to be counter-cyclical, precedes bad … distribution of the cyclically adjusted price-to-earnings ratio (CAPE ratio) as function of economic and uncertainty conditions …
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The aim of this paper is to analyze the merits of using the Value At Risk method in estimating the risk associated with investments in metallurgical sector companies. The paper presents how to construct the model, various methods of its estimation and their advantages and disadvantages. In the...
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Could differences in risk attitudes explain parts of the gender wage gap? We present estimates on the association between labor market outcomes and financial risk-taking using individual level administrative data on individual wealth portfolios and wage rates. The individual's share of risky to...
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We use data from Spain to test for an effect of earnings risk and skewness on individual wages. We carry out separate estimation for men, women, public and private sector employees. In accordance with previous evidence for the US we show the existence of a risk-return trade-off across...
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In this paper we test for risk compensation in wages using Danish panel data. With the conviction that the type of education is as important as the education length, we use a very detailed description of the type of education reached by the Danish population to calculate different measures of...
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