The Individual’s Tax-Exempt Bond Portfolio Decision Under Income Uncertainty
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In this article, an individual’s tax-exempt bond porrfolio decision is investigated. A model capturing the relationship between income uncertainty and optimal portfolio choice is defined when an individual decision-maker has the opportunity to hold higher yielding private-activity bonds. The findings in this article show that in most cases risk-averse individuals will maximize the expected utility of after-tax income by holding a large proportion of private-activity bonds in their portfolio even under income uncertainty and the risk of a minimum tax liability. Those individuals who would benefitfrom holding private-activity bonds in a tax-exempt portfolio are identified and the magnitude of the benefit is quantified,
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