Date: Thursday, 25 May 2023, at 12:00 pm
Location: Seminar Room Bruguier Pacini, DEM
Speaker: Fabio Braggion (Tilburg University)
Title: “Systematic Income Risk and Households’ Portfolios”
Abstract:
We develop a methodology to estimate households’ exposure to systematic income risk and its causal effect on portfolio decisions. The identification strategy relies on house-hold fixed effects and a novel instrument based on major corporate events.
We apply it to a Dutch administrative panel dataset that covers the Dutch population between 2005 and 2020. Our dataset includes employer-employee matches, detailed decomposition of income and wealth, and income expectations. We document substantial cross-sectional variation in systematic income risk.
We find that households more exposed to business cycle fluctuations perceive their income as cyclical and hold safer portfolios.
Seminar organizers: Caterina Giannetti
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