Sökning: "risk-sharing"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 13 avhandlingar innehållade ordet risk-sharing.

  1. 1. Essays on Inequality, Insolvency and Innovation

    Författare :Paula Roth; Erik Lindqvist; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Inequality; Relative Deprivation; Consumption; Household Debt; Risk-sharing; Social Comparison; Status; Conspicuous Consumption; Innovation; Occupational Choice; Insolvency; Entrepreneurship; Economics; Nationalekonomi;

    Sammanfattning : First Impressions Last – Does Inequality Increase Status Consumption and Household Debt? (with Elin Molin): Recent decades have seen an increase in income inequality and household debt-to-GDP ratios in many countries, and several studies have suggested that higher income inequality spurs borrowing among nonrich households through their preference to "Keep up with the Joneses". In this paper, we show that standard Keeping up with the Joneses utility functions cannot generate this relationship unless one imposes the implausible assumption that the rich are more impatient than the nonrich. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Essays on job turnover, productivity and state-local finance

    Författare :Linda Andersson; Umeå universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; ; risk-sharing; intergovernmental transfers; international competition; job turnover; local and regional governments; openness; spillover; structural change; taxes; TFP growth; vertical external effects;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis consists of four self-contained papers on job turnover, productivity and state- local finance.Paper [I] deals with the determinants of the rate of job turnover defined as the change in distribution of employment between and within industries in Swedish manufacturing. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Essays on Dynamic Macroeconomics

    Författare :Conny Olovsson; Mats Persson; Dirk Krueger; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; Labor supply; home production; the equity premium puzzle; social security; intergenerational risk sharing; Business and economics; Ekonomi;

    Sammanfattning : My thesis consists of three papers in macroeconomics.“Why do Europeans Work so Little?” concerns labor supply. Market work per person is roughly 10 percent higher in the U.S. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Households' Responses to Policy in Labor and Credit Markets​

    Författare :Matilda Kilström; Per Krusell; Anna Seim; José V. Rodríguez Mora; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Economics; nationalekonomi;

    Sammanfattning : Household Debt and Monetary Policy: Revealing the Cash-Flow Channel We examine the effect of monetary policy on spending when households hold debt linked to short-term rates, such as adjustable-rate mortgages (ARMs). Using registry-based data, which is broadly representative of Swedish households, we find substantial heterogeneity in consumption responses to changes in monetary policy. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Essays on fiscal policy, growth and the importance of family altruism

    Författare :Katarina Nordblom; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Economics; Nationalekonomi; Economics; Nationalekonomi; nationalekonomi; Economics;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis consists of three self-contained essays.ESSAY I The Swedish tax system of 1991 and its effects on welfare and economic growth are analysed within two different, commonly used growth models. Not surprisingly, the results turn out to be fairly sensitive to the model structure. LÄS MER