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    • How Persistent Low Expected Returns Alter Optimal Life Cycle Saving, Investment, and Retirement Behavior 

      Horneff, Vanya; Maurer, Raimond; Mitchell, Olivia S. (2017-06-23)
      This Chapter explores how an environment of persistent low returns influences saving, investing, and retirement behaviors, as compared to what in the past had been thought of as more “normal” financial conditions. Our ...
    • HRS 

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      The University of Michigan Health and Retirement Study (HRS) is a longitudinal panel study that surveys a representative sample of approximately 20,000 people in America, supported by the National Institute on Aging (NIA ...
    • HUD 

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      The Department of Housing and Urban Development administers programs that provide housing and community development assistance. The Department also works to ensure fair and equal housing opportunity for all.
    • Idiosyncratic Risk, Aggregate Risk, and the Welfare Effects of Social Security 

      Harenberg, Daniel; Ludwig, Alexander (2017-12-01)
      We ask whether a pay-as-you-go financed social security system is welfare improving in an economy with idiosyncratic productivity and aggregate business cycle risk. We show analytically that the whole welfare benefit from ...
    • IFO 

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      "The ifo Institute provides the material with which it strives to shape the discourse on relevant topics in academia and in the public eye - hence our claim ""Shaping the Economic Debate"""
    • Implications of Money-Back Guarantees for Individual Retirement Accounts: Protection Then and Now 

      Horneff, Vanya; Liebler, Daniel; Maurer, Raimond; Mitchell, Olivia S. (2019-10-21)
      In the wake of the financial crisis and continued volatility in international capital markets, there is growing interest in mechanisms that can protect people against retirement account volatility. This paper explores the ...
    • Incompatible European Partners? Cultural Predispositions and Household Financial Behavior 

      Haliassos, Michalis; Jansson, Thomas; Karabulut, Yigitcan (2015-01-27)
      The Eurozone fiscal crisis has created pressure for institutional harmonization, but skeptics argue that cultural predispositions can prevent convergence in behavior. Our paper derives a robust cultural classification of ...
    • Inflation Expectations and Choices of Households 

      Vellekoop, Nathanael; Wiederholt, Mirko (2019-04-01)
      Do household inflation expectations affect consumption-savings decisions? We link survey data on quantitative inflation expectations to administrative data on income and wealth. We document that households with higher ...
    • International Capital Markets with Time-Varying Preferences 

      Curatola, Giuliano; Dergunov, Ilya (2017-08-02)
      We propose a 2-country asset-pricing model where agents' preferences change endogenously as a function of the popularity of internationally traded goods. We determine the effect of the time-variation of preferences on ...
    • IRS 

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      The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is the revenue service of the United States federal government.
    • JHPS 

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      Japanese Household Panel Survey
    • Job Loss Expectations, Durable Consumption and Household Finances: Evidence from Linked Survey Data 

      Pettinicchi, Yuri; Vellekoop, Nathanael (2019-03-01)
      Job security is important for durable consumption and household savings. Using surveys, workers express a probability that they will lose their job in the next 12 months. In order to assess the empirical content of these ...
    • Kenneth French 

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      The Fama-French Portfolios are constructed from the intersections of two portfolios formed on size, as measured by market equity (ME), and three portfolios using the ratio of book equity to market equity (BE/ME) as a proxy ...
    • Life Insurance and Demographic Change: An Empirical Analysis of Surrender Decisions Based on Panel Data 

      Gemmo, Irina; Götz, Martin (2016-12-01)
      Households buy life insurance as part of their liquidity management. The option to surrender such a policy can serve as a buffer when a household faces a liquidity need. In this study, we investigate empirically which ...
    • Life Insurance Demand under Health Shock Risk 

      Kraft, Holger; Schendel, Lorenz S.; Steffensen, Mogens (2015-06-03)
      This paper studies the life cycle consumption-investment-insurance problem of a family. The wage earner faces the risk of a health shock that significantly increases his probability of dying. The family can buy long-term ...
    • LINDA 

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      LINDA is a sample-based longitudinal individual database that is directed primarily to researchers. The main purpose of the database is to provide researchers with the opportunity to study income development for different ...
    • LISS 

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      The LISS panel (Longitudinal Internet Studies for the Social sciences) is the principal component of the MESS project. It consists of 5,000 households, comprising approximately 7,500 individuals. The panel is based on a ...
    • MABELLA 

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      The Mainz Behavioral and Experimental Laboratory (MABELLA) provides facilities for experimental social science research and is directed by Prof. Dormann, Prof. Wessa and Prof. Schunk.
    • NTR 

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      The registry forms the basis for the tax register, the electoral register and population statistics. An accurate national registry is essential to ensure that all citizens receive information from public authorities and ...
    • OECD 

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      The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) is an international organisation that works to build better policies for better lives. Our goal is to shape policies that foster prosperity, equality, ...