• Higher-Order Income Risk over the Business Cycle: A Parametric Approach 

      Busch, Christopher; Ludwig, Alexander (2020-03-24)
      We extend the canonical income process with persistent and transitory risk to shock distributions with left-skewness and excess kurtosis, to which we refer as higher- order risk. We estimate our extended income process by ...
    • Optimal Taxes on Capital in the OLG Model with Uninsurable Idiosyncratic Income Risk 

      Krueger, Dirk; Ludwig, Alexander (2018-02-09)
      We characterize the optimal linear tax on capital in an Overlapping Generations model with two period lived households facing uninsurable idiosyncratic labor income risk. The Ramsey government internalizes the general ...
    • PSID 

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      The Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) is the longest running longitudinal household survey in the world. The study began in 1968 with a nationally representative sample of over 18,000 individuals living in 5,000 families ...
    • Smart (Phone) Investing? A Within Investor-Time Analysis of New Technologies and Trading Behavior 

      Kalda, Ankit; Loos, Benjamin; Previtero, Alessandro; Hackethal, Andreas (2021-02-02)
      Using transaction-level data from two German banks, we study the effects of smartphones on investor behavior. Comparing trades by the same investor in the same month across different platforms, we find that smartphones ...
    • WP303_tradingdata 

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      We use proprietary investor transaction-level data from two large German retail banks. For a large random sample of clients at the banks, we observe all their trades, including information on the securities traded, the ...