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Mobility.
- Source :
- Working Paper Series (Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland); 12/23/2016, Vol. 16 Issue 34-37, preceding p1-48, 49p
- Publication Year :
- 2016
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Abstract
- This paper studies short-run wealth mobility in a heterogeneous agents, incomplete-markets model. Wealth mobility has a "hump-shaped" relationship with the persistence of the stochastic process governing labor income: low when shocks are close to i.i.d. or close to a random walk, and higher in between. The standard incomplete markets framework features less wealth mobility than found in the PSID wealth supplements. We include features commonly used in the literature to capture wealth inequality and find that they do little to improve the model's performance for wealth mobility. Finally, we introduce state-contingent assets, which allow households to partially span the space of labor productivity. Moving toward a more "complete" market lowers wealth mobility unless the labor income process is very persistent. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- INCOME
PAPER arts
ASSET management
ASSETS (Accounting)
QUALITY of life
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 25737945
- Volume :
- 16
- Issue :
- 34-37
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Working Paper Series (Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland)
- Publication Type :
- Report
- Accession number :
- 120812627