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consumption, aggregate wealth, and labour income should predict both stock returns and housing returns. We use quarterly data for … temporarily allow consumption to rise. Regarding housing returns, if housing assets are complementary to stocks, then investors … their consumption. …
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deviations from the common trend among consumption, aggregate wealth, and labour income, cay, and focus on the implications for … future stock returns to be higher, they will temporarily allow consumption to rise. Regarding housing returns, if housing … substitutes consumption will be temporarily reduced. …
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the period 1980q1-2011q4. That is, income is more often found to predict consumption and saving than the converse. Our … consumption and by exploring the direction of Granger causality between the two series. We also give evidence that house price … changes played a role in the US income and consumption dynamics, before, during and after the Great Recession. …
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How does risk affect saving? Empirical work typically examines the effects of detectible differences in risk within the data. How these differences affect saving in theoretical models depends on the metric one uses for risk. For labor-income risk, second-degree increases in risk require prudence...
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estimate of risk aversion and the time preference discount rate per individual. This can be done because the consumption of a …
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Several frictions restrict the government’s ability to tax assets. First, it is very costly to monitor trades on international asset markets. Second, agents can resort to nonobservable low-return assets such as cash, gold or foreign currencies if taxes on observable assets become too high....
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includes domestic energy production and consumption, trade in energy at world market prices, as well as private and public … production. (ii) Steady state consumption rises in most of our experiments. (iii) Welfare can rise by as much as 0.6 percent in … consumption equivalent terms. (iv) The largest gains in terms of output and of welfare can be obtained when savings from energy …
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Using an intertemporal model of saving and capital accumulation we demonstrate that it is impossible for any binding minimum wage to increase the after-tax incomes of workers if the production function is Cobb-Douglas with constant returns to scale, or if there are no differences in ability...
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the analogy between habit formation and durable consumption to study the taxation of durable and nondurable commodities. …
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In this paper we examine the role of mortgage equity withdrawal in explaining the decline of the US saving rate, since when house prices rise and mortgage rates are low, homeowners have an incentive to withdraw housing equity and this may affect the saving rate. We estimate a Vector Error...
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