Blundell, R;
Low, H;
Preston, I;
(2004)
Income risk and consumption inequality: a simulation study.
Institute for Fiscal Studies
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Abstract
This paper assesses the accuracy of decomposing income risk into permanent and transitory components using income and consumption data. We develop a specific approximation to the optimal consumption growth rule and use Monte Carlo evidence to show that this approximation can provide a robust method for decomposing income risk. The availability of asset data enables the use of a more accurate approximation allowing for partial self-insurance against permanent shocks. We show that the use of data on median asset holdings corrects much of the error in the simple approximation which assumes no self-insurance against permanent shocks.
Type: | Report |
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Title: | Income risk and consumption inequality: a simulation study |
Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
Additional information: | ISSN: 1742-0415 |
UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Dept of Economics |
URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/14802 |



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