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Household Optimism and Borrowing

2012

A unique Finnish household-level data from 1994 to 2009 allow us to measure how households’ financial expectations are related to the subsequent outcomes. We use the difference between the two to measure forecast errors and household optimism and link the errors to households’ borrowing behaviour. We find that households making greatest optimistic forecast errors carry greater levels of debt and are most likely to suffer from excessive debt loads (overindebtedness). They also are less attentive to forecast errors than their pessimistic counterparts when forming their expectations for a subsequent period.

OptimismFinancial economicsCarry (investment)media_common.quotation_subjectDebtEconomicsDemographic economicsPessimismjel:G02jel:D03jel:D14forecast errors; ex ante optimism; borrowingmedia_commonSSRN Electronic Journal
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Dealing with risk: Gender, stakes, and probability effects

2015

This paper investigates how subjects deal with financial risk, both "upside" (with a small chance of a high payoff) and "downside" (with a small chance of a low payoff). We find that the same people who avoid risk in the downside setting tend to make more risky choices in the upside one. The experiment is designed to disentangle the probability-weighting and utility-curvature components of risk attitudes, and to differentiate settings in which gender differences arise from those in which they do not. Women are more risk averse for downside risks, but gender differences are diminished for upside risks.

jel:C91jel:G02risk aversion probability weighting rank-dependent utility gender differences experiments
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Perception du risque dépendance et demande d'assurance : une analyse à partir de l'enquête PATER

2013

Dans la littérature économique, de nombreux travaux tentent d'expliquer pourquoi les individus s’assurent aussi peu contre la dépendance. Du côté de l’offre, différents freins possibles au développement du marché de l’assurance dépendance ont d’ores et déjà été pointés du doigt par la littérature. Les estimations récentes montrent néanmoins que les limites imputables à l’offre ne suffisent pas à expliquer le faible développement du marché : même si les assurances étaient moins coûteuses et les couvertures proposées plus larges, la majorité des individus ne souscrirait toujours pas d’assurance. Il est donc nécessaire d’aller trouver des explications du côté de la demande d’assurance dépendan…

jel:D81JEL: D - Microeconomics/D.D1 - Household Behavior and Family Economics/D.D1.D10 - GeneralAssurance-invaliditéjel:D84JEL : I - Health Education and Welfare/I.I3 - Welfare Well-Being and Poverty/I.I3.I38 - Government Policy • Provision and Effects of Welfare Programsjel:G02[ QFIN ] Quantitative Finance [q-fin]JEL: J - Labor and Demographic Economics/J.J1 - Demographic Economics/J.J1.J14 - Economics of the Elderly • Economics of the Handicapped • Non-Labor Market DiscriminationJEL : D - Microeconomics/D.D8 - Information Knowledge and Uncertainty/D.D8.D81 - Criteria for Decision-Making under Risk and Uncertaintyperception du risqueaversion au risqueJEL : D - Microeconomics/D.D8 - Information Knowledge and Uncertainty/D.D8.D84 - Expectations • SpeculationsAssurance dépendance[QFIN]Quantitative Finance [q-fin]préférence pour le présentJEL: I - Health Education and Welfare/I.I3 - Welfare Well-Being and Poverty/I.I3.I38 - Government Policy • Provision and Effects of Welfare ProgramsJEL: D - Microeconomics/D.D8 - Information Knowledge and Uncertainty/D.D8.D81 - Criteria for Decision-Making under Risk and UncertaintyAssurance-invalidité;jel:D10JEL : J - Labor and Demographic Economics/J.J1 - Demographic Economics/J.J1.J14 - Economics of the Elderly • Economics of the Handicapped • Non-Labor Market DiscriminationJEL: D - Microeconomics/D.D8 - Information Knowledge and Uncertainty/D.D8.D84 - Expectations • Speculationsjel:I11[QFIN] Quantitative Finance [q-fin]jel:J14JEL: I - Health Education and Welfare/I.I1 - Health/I.I1.I11 - Analysis of Health Care Marketsjel:I13JEL : I - Health Education and Welfare/I.I1 - Health/I.I1.I11 - Analysis of Health Care Marketsjel:I38Assurance dépendance; perception du risque; préférence pour le présent; aversion au risque;JEL : D - Microeconomics/D.D1 - Household Behavior and Family Economics/D.D1.D10 - General
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