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The Dynamics of Crises and the Equity Premium 

Branger, Nicole; Kraft, Holger; Meinerding, Christoph (2015-05-18)
It is a major challenge for asset pricing models to generate a high equity premium and a low risk-free rate while imposing realistic consumption dynamics. To address this issue, our paper proposes a novel pricing channel: ...
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Consumption Habits and Humps 

Kraft, Holger; Munk, Claus; Seifried, Frank Thomas; Wagner, Sebastian (2015-07-10)
We show that the optimal consumption of an individual over the life cycle can have the hump shape (inverted U-shape) observed empirically if the preferences of the individual exhibit internal habit formation. In the absence ...
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When Do Jumps Matter for Portfolio Optimization? 

Ascheberg, Marius; Branger, Nicole; Kraft, Holger (2015-11-25)
We consider the continuous-time portfolio optimization problem of an investor with constant relative risk aversion who maximizes expected utility of terminal wealth. The risky asset follows a jump-diffusion model with a ...
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Life Insurance Demand under Health Shock Risk 

Kraft, Holger; Schendel, Lorenz S.; Steffensen, Mogens (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 ...
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Asset Prices in General Equilibrium with Recursive Utility and Illiquidity Induced by Transactions Costs 

Buss, Adrian; Uppal, Raman; Vilkov, Grigory (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 ...
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Consumption and Wage Humps in a Life-Cycle Model with Education 

Kraft, Holger; Munk, Claus; Seifried, Frank Thomas; Steffensen, Mogens (2015-02-24)
The observed hump-shaped life-cycle pattern in individuals’ consumption cannot be explained by the classical consumption-savings model. The consensus explanation is that the hump is caused by constraints and unspanned ...
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Incompatible European Partners? Cultural Predispositions and Household Financial Behavior 

Haliassos, Michalis; Jansson, Thomas; Karabulut, Yigitcan (2015-01-27)
The Eurozone fiscal crisis has created pressure for institutional harmonization, but skeptics argue that cultural predispositions can prevent convergence in behavior. Our paper derives a robust cultural classification of ...
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Anchoring in Experimental Asset Markets 

Baghestanian, Sascha; Walker, Todd B. (2015-02-10)
We investigate the relationship between anchoring and the emergence of bubbles in experimental asset markets. We show that setting a visual anchor at the fundamental value (FV) in the first period only is sufficient to ...
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The Effects of a Low Interest Rate Environment on Life Insurers 

Berdin, Elia; Gründl, Helmut (2015-01-01)
Low interest rates are becoming a threat to the stability of the life insurance industry, especially in countries such as Germany, where products with relatively high guaranteed returns sold in the past still represent a ...
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Does Product Familiarity Matter for Participation? 

Fuchs-Schündeln, Nicola; Haliassos, Michael (2015-05-19)
"Household access to financial products is often conditioned on previous use. However, banning access when learning is possible may be discriminatory or counterproductive. The ""experiment"" of German reunification ...
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