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Concave consumption function and precautionary wealth accumulation
... of precautionary wealth accumulation in a multi- period model where consumers face uninsurable earnings risk and borrowing ...encourage wealth accumulation at both the individual and aggregate ...
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Precautionary Wealth and Portfolio Allocation: Evidence from Canadian Microdata
... degree of avoidance of risky, in favor of risk-free assets when there is an additional risk source; the higher the risk aversion, the lower the demand for the risky asset. However, an uninsurable risk such as labour ...
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Income Uncertainty and Self-Reported Precautionary Wealth: Evidence from the Japanese Micro Data
... more precautionary wealth for income risks, and are also likely to choose a more stable occupation such as the public service or larger ...less precautionary wealth, and are likely to choose ...
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Precautionary wealth among U.S farm households
... the precautionary saving model are reported in table 3 2 ...more wealth in order to smooth their future consumption ...of precautionary savings in total farm household’s wealth is small ...
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Agricultural Precautionary Wealth
... Evidence from these data is consistent with the precautionary saving motive in that farm households facing greater uncertainty in income maintain larger stocks of wealth in order to sm[r] ...
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Borrowing Constraints, Portfolio Choice, and Precautionary
... on wealth accumulation, portfolio behavior and on precautionary ...on wealth turns out to be a very special case among collateral constraints: not only is constrained consumption equal to income but ...
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Precautionary Saving and Income Uncertainty in Germany: New Evidence from Microdata
... and Wealth (SIW). The former find that precautionary savings explain 2% of total ...that precautionary wealth ranges from 20% to 24% of total ...that precautionary saving generates a ...
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Education as a precautionary asset
... for precautionary wealth accumulation (elicited by a positive third derivative of the utility function), parents with an uninsured exposure to income risks (due to the preclusion of borrowing and private ...
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Precautionary Saving Over the Lifecycle
... of precautionary wealth accumulation relative to life—cycle saving for ...calibrations, precautionary saving only adds 5—6% to aggregative life—cycle wealth ...extra wealth accumulation ...
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Disentangling the Importance of the Precautionary Saving Mode
... of precautionary wealth to insure against ...that precautionary savings become sizable and important for two specific groups: business owners and those older than ...large wealth holdings of ...
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Precautionary Saving: a review of the theory and the evidence
... uses precautionary saving as the dependent variable, finding evidence of its existence in ...of precautionary saving scaled by the desired permanent ...and Wealth (SHIW) had a direct question about ...
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Wealth and the Capitalist Spirit
... accumulated wealth declines more slowly than the marginal utility gained from an additional unit of ...accumulate wealth that does not exist in otherwise fully specified life cycle ...additional ...
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Consumption uncertainty and precautionary saving
... The Euler equation estimated in Section V is derived assuming perfect capital markets. However, the equation fails in the presence of liquidity constraints or myopic consumers. Let us consider a simple alternative model, ...
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Taxation, insurance, and precautionary labor
... Abstract: We examine optimal taxation and social insurance with adverse selection in competitive in- surance markets. In a previous literature, it has been shown that, with perfect insurance markets, social insurance ...
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Policy Uncertainty and Precautionary Savings
... A word of caution is needed here. The corrected measure of saving that we have built should be considered with some prudence. To compute it we have used information on employees’ contributions to private pension plans, ...
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Precautionary Saving and Consumption Fluctuations
... months. In a household’s first interview, the CEX procedures are explained to the members of the household and they are asked to keep track of their expenditures for future interviews. In each subsequent interview, ...
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Taxation, Insurance and Precautionary Labor
... The link between the two strands is a theory of precautionary labor that we develop in section 2. While the theory of optimal income taxation requires labor supply to be endogenous, models of competitive insurance ...
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Health Expenditures and Precautionary Savings
... Hence, in the case of fair insurance total initial premium payments equal 5.75, almost 6 percent of the present expected value of total lifetime consumption plus health expenditures. The[r] ...
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The Precautionary Principle as a Heuristic Patch
... the Precautionary Principle ...Keywords: precautionary principle; misclassification costs; scientific uncertainty; omission bias; affect heuristic; significance testing; signal-detection theory; behavioral ...
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The implications of the precautionary principle for biological monitoring
... It notes the problems associated with assessing toxicological effects, but centres its attention on the crucial (yet far less discussed) w e a k n e s s e s in the[r] ...
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