Browsing LIF-SAFE Working Papers by Keyword "portfolio choice"
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Asset Prices in General Equilibrium with Recursive Utility and Illiquidity Induced by Transactions Costs
(2015-02-01)In this paper, we study the effect of proportional transaction costs on consumption-portfolio decisions and asset prices in a dynamic general equilibrium economy with a financial market that has a single-period bond and ... -
Consumption-Investment Problems with Stochastic Mortality Risk
(2014-03-03)I numerically solve realistically calibrated life cycle consumption-investment problems in continuous time featuring stochastic mortality risk driven by jumps, unspanned labor income as well as short-sale and liquidity ... -
Critical Illness Insurance in Life Cycle Portfolio Problems
(2014-03-03)I analyze a critical illness insurance in a consumption-investment model over the life cycle. I solve a model with stochastic mortality risk and health shock risk numerically. These shocks are interpreted as critical illness ... -
International Capital Markets with Time-Varying Preferences
(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 ... -
Life Insurance Demand under Health Shock Risk
(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 ... -
Preference Evolution and the Dynamics of Capital Markets
(2016-05-13)This paper introduces endogenous preference evolution into a Lucas-type economy and explores its consequences for investors' trading strategy and the dynamics of asset prices. In equilibrium, investors herd and hold the ... -
The Power of ESG Ratings on Stock Markets
(2021-03-10)This paper studies the impact of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) ratings on investors’ preferences and stock prices. We exploit a change in ESG rating methodology that non-linearly shifted ESG ratings for firms ... -
The salience of ESG ratings for stock pricing: Evidence from (potentially) confused investors
(2021-10-08)We exploit a modification to Sustainalytics' environmental, social, and governance (ESG) rating methodology, which is subsequently adopted by Morningstar, to study whether ESG ratings are salient for stock pricing. We show ...