• 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 ...
    • 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 ...
    • Risk Pooling, Leverage, and the Business Cycle 

      Dindo, Pietro; Modena, Andrea; Pelizzon, Loriana (2020-02-25)
      This paper studies the impact of financial sector size and leverage on business cycles and risk-free rates dynamics. We model a general equilibrium productive economy where financial intermediaries provide costly risk ...