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Browsing Working Papers by Subject "E21"
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Title:Financial intermediation, house prices, and the distributive effects of the U.S. great recession
Author(s):MENNO, Dominik; OLIVIERO, TommasoDate:2013Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:This paper quantifies the effects of credit spread and income shocks on aggregate house prices and households’ welfare. We address this issue within a stochastic dynamic general equilibrium model with heterogeneous households ...
Title:Cash-on-Hand and the Duration of Job Search. Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Norway
Author(s):BASTEN, Christoph; FAGERENG, Andreas; TELLE, KjetilDate:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:We identify the causal effect of lump-sum severance payments on non-employment duration in Norway by exploiting a discontinuity in eligibility at age 50. We find that a severance payment worth 1.2 months’ earnings at the ...
Title:Unemployment Insurance and Home Production
Author(s):TASKIN, TemelDate:2011-01-01Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:In this paper, we incorporate home production into a quantitative model of unemployment and show that realistic levels of home production have a significant impact on the optimal unemployment insurance rate. Motivated by ...
Title:How Important is Intra-Household Risk Sharing for Savings and Labor Supply?
Author(s):ORTIGUEIRA, Salvador; SIASSI, NawidDate:2010-01-01Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:While it is recognized that the family is primarily an institution for risk sharing, little is known about the quantitative effects of this informal source of insurance on savings and labor supply. In this paper, we present ...
Title:Stationary Equilibrium Distributions in Economies with Limited Commitment
Author(s):BROER, TobiasDate:2009Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:Limited commitment to contracts can explain imperfect risk sharing even when individuals have access to complete insurance markets. Past contributions have focused on the resulting cross-sectional distribution of consumption ...
Title:Pension Risk, Retirement Saving and Insurance
Author(s):GUISO, Luigi; JAPPELLI, Tullio; PADULA, MarioDate:2009Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:Using a representative sample of Italian investors, we estimate the risk associated with
pension benefits by eliciting for each individual the subjective distribution of the
replacement rate as a summary indicator of ...
Title:Incomplete Markets and the Evolution of the US. Consumer Wealth Distribution
Author(s):HINTERMAIER, Thomas; KOENIGER, WinfriedDate:2008Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:We use a buffer-stock saving model to explain the evolution of the consumer net-worth
distribution in the US between 1983 and 2004. We focus on net-worth up to the 90th
percentile due to the well-known problem of matching ...
Title:Deep Habits and the Dynamic Effects of Monetary Policy Shocks
Author(s):RAVN, Morten O.; SCHMITT-GROHE, Stephanie; URIBE, Martin; UUSKULA, LennoDate:2008Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:This paper introduces deep habits into a sticky-price sticky-wage economy and asks whether the countercyclical markup movements induced by deep habits is helpful for accounting for the dynamic effects of monetary policy ...
Title:The Home Bias of the Poor: Terms of Trade Effects and and Portfolios across the Wealth Distribution
Author(s):BROER, TobiasDate:2008Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:Wealthier people generally hold a larger part of their savings in risky
assets. Using the US Survey of Consumer Finances, I show that wealthier
households also have a higher portfolio share of foreign assets. This ...