Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/39044 
Year of Publication: 
2009
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper Series: Finance & Accounting No. 202
Publisher: 
Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Frankfurt a. M.
Abstract: 
The utility-maximizing consumption and investment strategy of an individual investor receiving an unspanned labor income stream seems impossible to find in closed form and very difficult to find using numerical solution techniques. We suggest an easy procedure for finding a specific, simple, and admissible consumption and investment strategy, which is near-optimal in the sense that the wealthequivalent loss compared to the unknown optimal strategy is very small. We first explain and implement the strategy in a simple setting with constant interest rates, a single risky asset, and an exogenously given income stream, but we also show that the success of the strategy is robust to changes in parameter values, to the introduction of stochastic interest rates, and to endogenous labor supply decisions.
Subjects: 
Optimal consumption and investment
labor income
incomplete markets
artificially completed markets
welfare loss
JEL: 
G11
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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