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Economic policy uncertainty is proven to have an important effect on household consumption. However, the literature on its transmission mechanism and on comparing the consumption response of urban and rural households, especially in China, is limited. In this paper, we propose two channels...
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behavior. We find that a one percentage point increase in job loss risk increases liquid savings by roughly 1.2 - 2.0 percent …In this paper we use Norwegian tax data and a novel natural experiment to isolate the impact of job loss risk on saving …
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This paper aims to fill the gaps in the analysis of risk‐sharing channels at the microlevel, both within and across … to quantify in a unified and consistent framework several risk‐sharing mechanisms that so far have been documented … both 2008-2010 and 2010-2012 spells. The most important smoothing mechanisms turn out to be self‐insurance through savings …
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two channels in driving aggre- gate consumption fluctuations in the US: (i) precautionary savings against un- employment … risk and (ii) MPC heterogeneity. I find that MPC heterogeneity is the dominant channel because a large fraction of …
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to evaluate the adequacy of retirement savings. We find first that the specification of the model's asset structure … have access only to a risk‐free asset compared to when we account for the fact that much of their wealth is stored in …
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theory and raised questions about household saving behaviors in the country. Using constructed pseudo-panel data sets from …
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consumption‐savings model with borrowing constraints and income risk that formalizes the notion of memorable goods and …
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The design of pension schemes is crucial in determining savings behavior. The impact of pension schemes on saving rates … between saving patterns and pension wealth. This paper investigates the effect of the private pension contributions on savings … distribution. According to the results, the savings rate is negatively associated with private pensions at all quantile levels. The …
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Using the 2015 and 2017 waves of the China Household Finance Survey (CHFS), we measured financial literacy and study its relationship to households' demand for digital finance. We found that a majority of households in the People's Republic of China possess limited financial literacy. The low...
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