This paper analyzes the investment timing of firms facing two dimensions of financingconstraints: Liquidity constraints and capital market frictions inducing financing costs. We showthat liquidity constraints are not sufficient to explain voluntary investment delay. However, whenadditionally...

We explore the various arguments for and against the recommendation that younger households should invest a larger share of their pension wealth in risky assets. The ability of young agents to compensate their financial losses by saving more during their career provides the strongest argument in...