Sökning: "Household portfolios"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 8 avhandlingar innehållade orden Household portfolios.
1. Essays in household finance
Sammanfattning : This doctoral thesis consists of three independent papers in financial economics. The common thread for these three papers is that I seek to better understand the determinants of the financial decision-making and behavior of individuals... LÄS MER
2. Public Policy, Household Finance and the Macroeconomy
Sammanfattning : The thesis contains four separate essays, spanning questions of the interaction between public policy, household finance and the macroeconomy. How does public policy affect macroeconomic outcomes, and the choices and welfare of households, and what are households’ optimal financial responses to changes in macroeconomic environments? Furthermore, the thesis includes a development of a method, which is helpful to answer questions like the ones stated above. LÄS MER
3. Essays in Applied Microeconomics
Sammanfattning : This thesis consists of four self-contained papers in applied microeconomics. The first paper asks how a neighbors purchase of a specific good affects a households likelihood of purchase. LÄS MER
4. Essays in Macroeconomics and Household Finance
Sammanfattning : Experience-based Learning, Stock Market Participation and Portfolio ChoiceRecent evidence suggests that lifetime experiences play an important role in determining households' investment choices. I incorporate these findings and the fact that household portfolios are underdiversified into an otherwise standard life-cycle model and examine to what extent they can help resolve long-standing puzzles in the literature regarding stock market participation and the fraction of financial wealth invested in risky assets. LÄS MER
5. Essays on Income Risk, Portfolio Choices and the Macroeconomy
Sammanfattning : Business cycle asymmetry of earnings pass-throughHow does the firm's role as an insurance provider vary over the business cycle? Using Swedish administrative data, I document that idiosyncratic firm productivity shocks are passed through workers' earnings asymmetrically. In non-recessions, firms are good insurers against negative shocks. LÄS MER