Essays on uninsurable individual risk and heterogeneity in macroeconomics

This thesis examines empirical and theoretical issues related to the role of uninsurable individual risk and heterogeneity in macroeconomics. The thesis includes four chapters. The first chapter uses data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) to test full risk-sharing among North American h...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Santos Monteiro, Paulo
Other Authors: Weil, Philippe
Format: Doctoral Thesis
Language:en
Published: Universite Libre de Bruxelles 2008
Subjects:
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/210528