Luigi Pistaferri

Papers

 

All articles are in PDF format.

 

Published or Forthcoming Articles

 

o       “Wage risk and employment risk over the life-cycle”, with H. Low and C. Meghir, American Economic Review (forthcoming).

o       “Asset pricing implications of Pareto optimality with private information”, with N. Kocherlakota, Journal of Political Economy 2009.

o       “Disentangling insurance and information in intertemporal consumption choices”, with K. Kaufmann, American Economic Review P&P 2009.

o       “Consumption inequality and partial insurance”, with R. Blundell and I. Preston, American Economic Review 2008.

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o       “Inequality and real exchange rates”, with N. Kocherlakota, Journal of the European Economic Association 2008.

o       “A direct test of the buffer-stock model of saving”, with T, Jappelli and M. Padula, Journal of the European Economic Association 2008.

o       “Household heterogeneity and real exchange rates”, with N. Kocherlakota, Economic Journal, 2007.

o       “Health care quality, economic inequality and precautionary saving”, with T. Jappelli and G. Weber, Health Economics, 2007.

o       “Do people respond to tax incentives?” , with T. Jappelli, European Economic Review, 2007.

o       “Wages, employment, and capital in capitalist and worker-owned firms”, with J. Pencavel and F. Schivardi, Industrial and Labor Relations Review 2006.

o       “Intertemporal choice and consumption mobility”, with T. Jappelli, Journal of the European Economic Association 2006.

o       “Uncertainty and consumer durables adjustment”, with G. Bertola and L. Guiso, Review of Economic Studies 2005.

o       “Insurance within the firm”, with L. Guiso and F. Schivardi, Journal of Political Economy 2005.

o       “Income variance dynamics and heterogeneity”, with C. Meghir, Econometrica 2004.

o       “Anticipated and unanticipated wage changes, wage risk and life cycle labor supply”, Journal of Labor Economics 2003.

o       “Income volatility and household consumption: The impact of food assistance programs”, with R. Blundell, Journal of Human Resources 2003.

o       “Tax incentives and the demand for life insurance: Evidence from Italy”, with T. Jappelli, Journal of Public Economics 2003.

o       “An empirical analysis of earnings and employment risk”, with L. Guiso and T. Jappelli, Journal of Business and Economic Statistics 2002.

o       “Superior information, income shocks and the permanent income hypothesis”, Review of Economics and Statistics 2001.

o       “Using subjective income expectations to test the excess sensitivity of consumption to predicted income changes”, with T. Jappelli, European Economic Review 2000.

o       “The dynamics of household wealth accumulation in Italy”, with T. Jappelli, Fiscal Studies 2000.

o       “Wage differences by gender: Evidence from recently graduated MBAs”, with K. Graddy, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics 2000.

o       “Informal networks in the Italian labor market”, Giornale degli Economisti 1999.

Working Papers

 

o       “Imputing consumption in the PSID using food demand estimates from the CEX”, with R. Blundell and I. Preston.

o       “Financial integration and consumption smoothing”, with T. Jappelli.

o       “Does consumption Inequality track income inequality in Italy?”, with T. Jappelli.

o       “The effect of adjustment costs and institutional constraints on labor supply elasticities: Evidence from Denmark”, with R. Chetty, J. Friedman, and T. Olsen.

o       “The consumption response to income changes”, with T. Jappelli.

o       “Disability risk, disability insurance and life cycle behavior”, with H. Low.

o       “Credit within the firm”, with L. Guiso and F. Schivardi.

 

Books

 

“Saving and intertemporal choice”, with T. Jappelli, Il Mulino: Bologna, 2000 (in Italian).

 

 

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