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Aging and Pension Reform: Extending the Retirement Age and Human Capital Formation
(2014-12-29)
Projected demographic changes in industrialized and developing countries vary in extent and timing but will reduce the share of the population in working age everywhere. Conventional wisdom suggests that this will increase ...
Will They Take the Money and Work? An Empirical Analysis of People’s Willingness to Delay Claiming Social Security Benefits for a Lump Sum
(2014-01-01)
This paper investigates whether exchanging the Social Security delayed retirement credit, currently paid as an increase in lifetime annuity benefits, for a lump sum would induce later claiming and additional work. We show ...
Housing Habits and Their Implications for Life-Cycle Consumption and Investment
(2017-01-26)
We solve a rich life-cycle model of household decisions involving consumption of perishable goods and housing services, habit formation for housing consumption, stochastic labor income, stochastic house prices, home renting ...
Financial education, literacy and investment attitudes
(2015-05-01)
Based on a sample of university students, we provide field and laboratory evidence that a small scale training intervention has both a statistically and economically significant effect on subjective and objective assessments ...
How Do Banks React to Catastrophic Events? Evidence from Hurricane Katrina
(2017-09-01)
This paper explores how banks react to an exogenous shock caused by Hurricane Katrina in 2005, and how the structure of the banking system affects economic development following the shock. Independent banks based in the ...
Aggregate and Distributional Effects of Increasing Taxes on Top Income Earners
(2015-07-13)
We analyze the macroeconomic implications of increasing the top marginal income tax rate using a dynamic general equilibrium framework with heterogeneous agents and a fiscal structure resembling the actual U.S. tax system. ...
On the Optimal Provision of Social Insurance
(2015-08-29)
In this paper we compute the optimal tax and education policy transition in an economy where progressive taxes provide social insurance against idiosyncratic wage risk, but distort the education decision of households. ...
Asset Market Participation and Portfolio Choice Over the Life-Cycle
(2015-06-01)
We study the life cycle of portfolio allocation following for 15 years a large random sample of Norwegian households using error-free data on all components of households’ investments drawn from the Tax Registry. Both, ...
On the Distributive Effects of Inflation
(2015-06-01)
This paper undertakes a quantitative investigation of the effects of anticipated inflation on the distribution of household wealth and welfare. Consumer Finance Data on household financial wealth suggests that about a third ...
A Stochastic Forward-Looking Model to Assess the Profitability and Solvency of European Insurers
(2016-11-01)
In this paper, we develop an analytical framework for conducting forward-looking assessments of profitability and solvency of the main euro area insurance sectors. We model the balance sheet of an insurance company ...