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Value of life and annuity demand

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1001 ‎$0‎MAPA20220004947‎$a‎Pashchenko, Svetlana
24510‎$a‎Value of life and annuity demand‎$c‎Svetlana Pashchenko, Ponpoje Porapakkarm
520  ‎$a‎How does the value of life affect annuity demand? To address this question, we construct a portfolio choice problem with three key features: (i) agents have access to life-contingent assets, (ii) they always prefer living to dying, (iii) agents have nonexpected utility preferences. We show that as utility from being alive increases, annuity demand decreases (increases) if agents are more (less) averse to risk rather than to intertemporal fluctuations. Put differently, if people prefer early resolution of uncertainty, they are less interested in annuities when the value of life is high. Our findings have two important implications. First, we get a better understanding of the well-known annuity puzzle. Second, we argue that the observed low annuity demand provides evidence that people prefer early rather than late resolution of uncertainty.
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650 4‎$0‎MAPA20080580377‎$a‎Esperanza de vida
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7001 ‎$0‎MAPA20220004954‎$a‎Porapakkarm, Ponpoje
7730 ‎$w‎MAP20077000727‎$g‎09/05/2022 Volumen 89 Número 2 - mayo 2022 , p. 371-396‎$x‎0022-4367‎$t‎The Journal of risk and insurance‎$d‎Nueva York : The American Risk and Insurance Association, 1964-