IdEP Seminar, Giovanna Nicodano - "Hedging Permanent Income Shocks"
Institute of Economics
Date: 6 November 2023 / 12:30 - 13:30
Red Room (main building - Executive Center), Università della Svizzera italiana, Campus Ovest Lugano
This paper estimates the individual correlation between permanent earnings shocks and an aggregate shock affecting both earnings and stock market returns, exploiting the co-movements across agents’ earnings shocks. These estimates imply larger hedging motives than previously thought in both Dutch and US data. They retain statistical significance in predicting both portfolio choice and participation when other measures do not. They explain participation both out-of-sample and for the same individual over time. All results, including others based on the correlation between permanent income shocks are stock returns, consistently support the theoretical prediction individuals rely on asset markets to help hedge their earnings’ shocks.
This paper is joint work with Fabio C. Bagliano, Raffaele Corvino, Carolina Fugazza (University of Torino, CEPR, CeRP - Collegio Carlo Alberto - and Netspar)
Giovanna Nicodano
Professor of Financial Economics, Università di Torino
