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Optimal consumption and the timing of the resolution of uncertainty

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  • Eeckhoudt, Louis
  • Gollier, Christian
  • Treich, Nicolas

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Article provided by Elsevier in its journal European Economic Review.

Volume (Year): 49 (2005)
Issue (Month): 3 (April)
Pages: 761-773

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Handle: RePEc:eee:eecrev:v:49:y:2005:i:3:p:761-773

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  1. Gollier, Christian, 2002. "Time diversification, liquidity constraints, and decreasing aversion to risk on wealth," Journal of Monetary Economics, Elsevier, vol. 49(7), pages 1439-1459, October.
  2. Christopher D. Carroll & Miles S. Kimball, 1995. "On the Concavity of the Consumption Function," Macroeconomics 9503003, EconWPA.
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  6. Richard Blundell & Thomas M. Stoker, 1994. "Consumption and the timing of income risk," IFS Working Papers W94/09, Institute for Fiscal Studies.
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  8. Skinner, Jonathan, 1988. "Risky income, life cycle consumption, and precautionary savings," Journal of Monetary Economics, Elsevier, vol. 22(2), pages 237-255, September.
  9. Pratt, John W & Zeckhauser, Richard J, 1987. "Proper Risk Aversion," Econometrica, Econometric Society, vol. 55(1), pages 143-54, January.
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  1. LANGE Andreas & TREICH Nicolas, 2007. "Uncertainty, Learning and Ambiguity in Economic Models on Climate Policy: Some Classical Results and New Directions," LERNA Working Papers 07.16.237, LERNA, University of Toulouse.
  2. Francisco J. Gomes & Laurence J. Kotlikoff & Luis M. Viceira, 2007. "The Excess Burden of Government Indecision," NBER Working Papers 12859, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  3. Salanié, François & Treich, Nicolas, 2009. "Option Value and Flexibility: A General Theorem with Applications," TSE Working Papers 09-002, Toulouse School of Economics (TSE).
  4. Feigenbaum, James, 2011. "Precautionary saving or denied dissaving," Economic Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 28(4), pages 1559-1572, July.
  5. Michel De Lara, 2009. "Preferences Yielding the ``Precautionary Effect''," Working Papers hal-00406939, HAL.
  6. Michel De Lara, 2009. "Preferences Yielding the "Precautionary Effect"," Papers 0907.4093, arXiv.org.
  7. Hammitt, James K. & Haninger, Kevin & Treich, Nicolas, 2009. "The Effect of Health and Longevity on Financial Risk-Tolerance," Open Access publications from University of Toulouse 1 Capitole http://neeo.univ-tlse1.fr, University of Toulouse 1 Capitole.
  8. Johanna Etner, 2006. "A Note on the Relation between Risk Aversion, Intertemporal Substitution and Timing of the Resolution of Uncertainty," Annals of Economics and Finance, Society for AEF, vol. 7(2), pages 251-256, November.
  9. Francois Gourio, 2007. "Putty-Clay Technology And Stock Market Volatility," Boston University - Department of Economics - Working Papers Series WP2007-005, Boston University - Department of Economics.
  10. Feigenbaum, James, 2008. "Information shocks and precautionary saving," Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Elsevier, vol. 32(12), pages 3917-3938, December.

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