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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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Inspired by a growing body of empirical work, this paper models a non-linear labor income process allowing for a personal disaster, such as long-term unemployment or disability, during working years. Such a disaster entails an uncertain but potentially large permanent shock to earnings. Personal disaster risk allows to match moderate risk-taking of young investors and a flat investment profile in age, observed in the United States, when the calibration of both the disaster probability and the expected permanent loss in the disaster state is conservative.

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  • Bagliano, Fabio C. & Fugazza, Carolina & Nicodano, Giovanna, 2024. "Life-cycle risk-taking with personal disaster risk," International Review of Economics & Finance, Elsevier, vol. 89(PB), pages 378-396.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:reveco:v:89:y:2024:i:pb:p:378-396
    DOI: 10.1016/j.iref.2023.10.035
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    Keywords

    Life-cycle portfolio choice; Disaster risk; Beta distribution; Non-linear income process; Unemployment risk; Disability 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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