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Life-cycle risk-taking with personal disaster risk

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  • Bagliano, Fabio C.
  • Fugazza, Carolina
  • Nicodano, Giovanna

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This paper examines households’ self-insurance in financial markets when a rare personal disaster, such as disability or long-term unemployment, may occur during working years. Personal disaster risk alters lifetime ex-ante investment choices, even if most workers will not experience a disaster. Uncertainty about the size of human capital losses, which characterizes rare disasters, results in lower risk-taking at the beginning of working life, and is crucial in order to match the observed age profiles of US investors from 1992 to 2016. JEL Classification: D15, E21, G11

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  • Bagliano, Fabio C. & Fugazza, Carolina & Nicodano, Giovanna, 2021. "Life-cycle risk-taking with personal disaster risk," ESRB Working Paper Series 132, European Systemic Risk Board.
    • Handle: RePEc:srk:srkwps:2021132
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    Keywords

    beta distribution; disability risk; disaster risk; non-linear income process; portfolio choice; unemployment risk;
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    JEL classification:

    • D15 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - Intertemporal Household Choice; Life Cycle Models and Saving
    • E21 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Consumption; Saving; Wealth
    • G11 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - Portfolio Choice; Investment Decisions

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