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Financial innovation in recent decades has expanded portfolio choice. We investigate how greater choice affects investors' savings and asset returns. We establish a choice channel by which greater portfolio choice increases investors' savings --- by enabling them to earn the aggregate risk...
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unique under full insurance. If investment is fully insured but unemployment risk is uninsured, the precautionary saving … multiplicity and promote risky investment. prudence, temperance, precautionary saving, portfolio choice …
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Shortfall aversion reflects the higher utility loss of spending cuts from a reference than the utility gain from similar spending increases. Inspired by Prospect Theory's loss aversion and the peak-end rule, this paper posits a model of utility from spending scaled by past peak-spending. In...
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Shortfall aversion reflects the higher utility loss of spending cuts from a reference than the utility gain from similar spending increases. Inspired by Prospect Theory's loss aversion and the peak-end rule, this paper posits a model of utility from spending scaled by past peak-spending. In...
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Consumption-CAPM literature …
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The neoclassical growth model is extended to include costly intermediated borrowing and lending between households. This is an important extension as substantial resources are used to intermediate the large amount of borrowing and lending between households. In 2007, in the United States, the...
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This paper studies why investors buy dividend-paying assets and how they time their consumption accordingly. We combine … administrative bank data linking customers' consumption transactions and income to detailed portfolio data and survey responses on … financial behavior. We find that private consumption is excessively sensitive to dividend income. Investors across wealth …
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In this paper we deal with the basic two-period consumption saving problem where the first and second period … consumption utility, respectively v and u is assumed to be concave as usually. Considering the usual assumption of identity of u …
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In this paper we extend the traditional life cycle model of saving and portfolio choice to allow for possible long …
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We examine whether Japanese households have begun to dissave and reduce their holdings of risky assets because of population aging over the period 2000–14. While there is little doubt that household savings have decreased, the true trend without a negative income shock in the early 2000s would...
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