idiosyncratic risk

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idiosyncratic
adjective
uk
/ˌɪd.i.ə.sɪŋˈkræt.ɪk/
us
/ˌɪd.i.ə.sɪŋˈkræt̬.ɪk/
having strange or unusual habits, ways of behaving, ...
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risk
noun
uk
/rɪsk/
us
/rɪsk/
the possibility of something ...
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In these types of models, nonlinearities are consequential because of borrowing constraints and because of the large amount ofidiosyncraticriskthat typically is assumed.
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In all cases, we find that the welfare gains from eliminating aggregate risk with no reduction inidiosyncraticriskare extremely low.
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However, for plausible sensitivity ofidiosyncraticriskto aggregate volatility, much larger welfare gains from stabilizing for aggregate risk are obtained.
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The source ofidiosyncraticriskin our model is individual total factor productivity as opposed to labor income.
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The key issue that we wish to consider concerns the potential co-reduction inidiosyncraticriskwith the aggregate volatility.
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One possible reason foridiosyncraticriskto be uninsurable is that the shocks to an individual's productivity are not publicly observable.
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Whenidiosyncraticriskis incorporated into the model, the asset moments can be decomposed into their value under identical households plus a new idiosyncratic term.
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Then you won't have markets for theidiosyncraticriskbecause of the problem of moral hazard.
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There is a perfect capital market, in whichidiosyncraticriskcan be diversified away.
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The regressions for all three data sets find that laggedidiosyncraticriskis also highly significant.
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The introduction ofidiosyncraticriskhas important implications for asset pricing, and in particular may reduce the risk-free rate substantially, through the precautionary savings motive.
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The introduction ofidiosyncraticriskhas important implications for asset pricing, and in particular may reduce the risk-free rate substantially.
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Moreover, the bulk of the gains are obtained from the reduction of theidiosyncraticrisk, by even modest amounts, rather than from the macro stabilization.
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However, we could not statistically identify the effect onidiosyncraticrisk.
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The present paper uses an analytical approach to derive approximate closed-form solutions for the asset moments of a real-business-cycle model withidiosyncraticrisk.
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Moreover, most of the gains come from the associated reduction inidiosyncraticriskrather than in the elimination of aggregate risk itself.
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It therefore can be misleading to focus on the amount ofidiosyncraticriskas the sole determinant of the market price of risk.
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First, it rules out complete insurance ofidiosyncraticriskby ruling out the existence of prices to consumption contingent on any possible history.
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To see why, suppose for the moment that there is noidiosyncraticrisk, so that there is no cross-sectional variation in consumption levels.
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