Ambiguous Consumption and Asset Allocation with Unknown Markovian Income Growth. Luo, Y., Nie, J., & Wang, H. Annals of Economics and Finance, 24(2):237 – 275, 2023. Publisher: Central University of Finance and Economics Type: Article
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This paper constructs a recursive utility version of a canonical Merton (1971) model with uninsurable labor income and unknown income growth to study how the interaction between two types of uncertainty due to ignorance affects strategic consumption-portfolio rules and precautionary savings. Specifically, after solving the model explicitly, we theoretically and quantitatively explore (i) how these ignorance-induced uncertainties interact with intertemporal substitution, risk aversion, and the correlation between the equity return and labor income, and (ii) how they jointly affect strategic asset allocation, precautionary savings, and the equilibrium asset returns. Further-more, we use data to test our model’s predictions on the relationship between ignorance and asset allocation and quantitatively show that the interaction between the two types of uncertainty is the key to explain the data. Finally, we find that the welfare costs of ignorance can be very large. © 2023, Central University of Finance and Economics. All rights reserved.
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	title = {Ambiguous {Consumption} and {Asset} {Allocation} with {Unknown} {Markovian} {Income} {Growth}},
	volume = {24},
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	abstract = {This paper constructs a recursive utility version of a canonical Merton (1971) model with uninsurable labor income and unknown income growth to study how the interaction between two types of uncertainty due to ignorance affects strategic consumption-portfolio rules and precautionary savings. Specifically, after solving the model explicitly, we theoretically and quantitatively explore (i) how these ignorance-induced uncertainties interact with intertemporal substitution, risk aversion, and the correlation between the equity return and labor income, and (ii) how they jointly affect strategic asset allocation, precautionary savings, and the equilibrium asset returns. Further-more, we use data to test our model’s predictions on the relationship between ignorance and asset allocation and quantitatively show that the interaction between the two types of uncertainty is the key to explain the data. Finally, we find that the welfare costs of ignorance can be very large. © 2023, Central University of Finance and Economics. All rights reserved.},
	language = {English},
	number = {2},
	journal = {Annals of Economics and Finance},
	author = {Luo, Yulei and Nie, Jun and Wang, Haijun},
	year = {2023},
	note = {Publisher: Central University of Finance and Economics
Type: Article},
	pages = {237 -- 275},
}

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