Income Volatility and Portfolio Choices

B-Tier
Journal: Review of Economic Dynamics
Year: 2022
Volume: 44
Pages: 65-90

Score contribution per author:

0.402 = (α=2.01 / 5 authors) × 1.0x B-tier

α: calibrated so average coauthorship-adjusted count equals average raw count

Abstract

Based on administrative data from Statistics Norway, we find economically significant shifts in households’ financial portfolios around individual structural breaks in labor-income volatility. According to our estimates, when income risk doubles, households reduce their risky share of financial assets by 5 percentage points, thus tempering their overall risk exposure. We show that our estimated risky share response is consistent with a standard portfolio choice model augmented with idiosyncratic, time-varying income volatility. (Copyright: Elsevier)

Technical Details

RePEc Handle
repec:red:issued:20-409
Journal Field
Macro
Author Count
5
Added to Database
2026-01-25