• Asset Pricing in OLG Economies With Borrowing Constraints and Idiosyncratic Income Risk 

      Harenberg, Daniel (2018-09-17)
      This paper analyzes how the combination of borrowing constraints and idiosyncratic risk affects the equity premium in an overlapping generations economy. I find that introducing a zero-borrowing constraint in an economy ...
    • BEA NIPA 

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      BEA's national economic accounts provide a comprehensive picture of the U.S. economy and feature many macroeconomic statistics.
    • HMD 

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      The Human Mortality Database (HMD) contains original calculations of death rates and life tables for national populations (countries or areas), as well as the input data used in constructing those tables. The input data ...
    • 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 ...
    • 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 ...
    • RJS 

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      Robert J. Shiller's online data
    • Social Security in an Analytically Tractable Overlapping Generations Model with Aggregate and Idiosyncratic Risk 

      Harenberg, Daniel; Ludwig, Alexander (2015-04-13)
      When markets are incomplete, social security can partially insure against idiosyncratic and aggregate risks. We incorporate both risks into an analytically tractable model with two overlapping generations. We derive the ...
    • SSA 

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      Since 2009, we have identifying high value data of particular interest to the public. Social Security has a long history of collecting data to carry out our mission so there is a treasure trove of information available for ...