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Does Inequality Matter for the Consumption-Wealth Channel? Empirical Evidence
Arrondel, Luc - 2017
This paper studies the heterogeneity of the marginal propensity to consume out of wealth based on French household surveys. This heterogeneity is driven by differences in both wealth composition and wealth levels. We find a decreasing marginal propensity to consume out of wealth across the...
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Are Consumers Planning Consumption According to an Euler Equation?
Dräger, Lena - 2017
Evaluating a new survey dataset of German consumers, we test whether individual consumption plans are formed according to an Euler equation derived from consumption life-cycle models. Estimating several consumption Euler equations, the results are mostly in line with the theory: We find evidence...
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Habit Formation and Labor Supply
Cremer, Helmuth - 2008
This paper shows that the combination of habit formation - present consumption creating additional consumption needs in the future - and myopia may explain why some retirees are forced to 'unretire', i.e., unexpectedly return to work. It also shows that when myopia about habit formation leads to...
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Systematic Consumption Risk in Currency Returns
Hoffmann, Mathias - 2013
boom yields consistently positive excess returns. This excess return compensates for the risk of high negative returns in … countries on risk aversion, and low (high) risk aversion currencies depreciate (appreciate) in times of global turmoil …
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When Inequality Matters for Macro and Macro Matters for Inequality
Ahn, SeHyoun - 2017
We develop an efficient and easy-to-use computational method for solving a wide class of general equilibrium heterogeneous agent models with aggregate shocks, together with an open source suite of codes that implement our algorithms in an easy-to-use toolbox. Our method extends standard...
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The Effect of Unconventional Fiscal Policy on Consumption Expenditure
D'Acunto, Francesco - 2016
Unconventional fiscal policy uses announcements of future increases in consumption taxes to generate inflation expectations and accelerate consumption expenditure. It is budget neutral and time consistent. We exploit a unique natural experiment for an empirical test of the effectiveness of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012981297
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House Prices, Local Demand, and Retail Prices
Stroebel, Johannes - 2015
We use detailed micro data to document a causal response of local retail price to changes in house prices, with elasticities of 15%-20% across housing booms and busts. Notably, these price responses are largest in zip codes with many homeowners, and non-existent in zip codes with mostly renters....
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The Consumption Effects of the 2007-2008 Financial Crisis : Evidence from Household-Level Data
Jensen, Thais - 2015
Did the financial crisis spread from distressed banks to households through a contraction of the credit supply? We study this question with a dataset that contains observations on all accounts in Danish banks as well as comprehensive information about individual account holders and banks. We...
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On the Underestimation of the Precautionary Effect in Discounting
Gollier, Christian - 2011
Using the extended Ramsey rule, the socially efficient rate is the difference between a wealth effect and a precautionary effect of economic growth. This second effect is increasing in the degree of uncertainty affecting the future. In the literature, it is usually calibrated by estimating the...
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The Joint Distribution of Wealth and Income Risk : Evidence from Bern
Krapf, Matthias - 2018
Using detailed tax data from the Swiss canton of Bern, I examine how changes in wealth are related to income risk. I … find that only among elderly individuals high kurtosis of income risk may be positively correlated with wealth accumulation … wealth investors experience sharp increases in wealth and income in subsequent periods. Finally, wealth risk is more …
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