stochastic mortality risk and health shock risk numerically. These shocks are interpreted as critical illness and can negatively …

stochastic mortality risk driven by jumps, unspanned labor income as well as short-sale and liquidity constraints and a simple … insurance. I compare models with deterministic and stochastic hazard rate of death to a model without mortality risk. Mortality … risk has only minor effects on the optimal controls early in the life cycle but it becomes crucial in later years. A …

This paper studies the life cycle consumption-investment-insurance problem of a family. The wage earner faces the risk …

manage systematic mortality risks, namely self-insurance and risk transfer to purchasers of the annuity products. We …, saving, and portfolio allocation patterns given stochastic and systematic mortality. Insurers have taken two approaches to … demonstrate that self-insurance leads to high loadings, so that households offered a choice would favor the risk transfer scheme …