The Pass-Through of Uncertainty Shocks to Households /
Maggio, Marco Di.
The Pass-Through of Uncertainty Shocks to Households / Marco Di Maggio, Amir Kermani, Rodney Ramcharan, Vincent Yao, Edison Yu. - Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2020. - 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white); - NBER working paper series no. w27646 . - Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w27646. .
August 2020.
Using new employer-employee matched data, this paper investigates the impact of uncertainty, as measured by idiosyncratic stock market volatility, on individual outcomes. We find that firms provide at best partial insurance to their workers. An increase in firm-level uncertainty is associated with a decline in total compensation, especially in variable pay. In turn, individuals reduce their durable goods consumption in response to these uncertainty shocks. These shocks also lead to greater financial fragility among lower-income earners. We also construct a new county-level uncertainty shock and find that local uncertainty shocks reduce county level durable consumption.
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The Pass-Through of Uncertainty Shocks to Households / Marco Di Maggio, Amir Kermani, Rodney Ramcharan, Vincent Yao, Edison Yu. - Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2020. - 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white); - NBER working paper series no. w27646 . - Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w27646. .
August 2020.
Using new employer-employee matched data, this paper investigates the impact of uncertainty, as measured by idiosyncratic stock market volatility, on individual outcomes. We find that firms provide at best partial insurance to their workers. An increase in firm-level uncertainty is associated with a decline in total compensation, especially in variable pay. In turn, individuals reduce their durable goods consumption in response to these uncertainty shocks. These shocks also lead to greater financial fragility among lower-income earners. We also construct a new county-level uncertainty shock and find that local uncertainty shocks reduce county level durable consumption.
System requirements: Adobe [Acrobat] Reader required for PDF files.
Mode of access: World Wide Web.