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This paper studies the long-run relationship between consumption, asset wealth and income in Germany, based on data from 1980 to 2003. While earlier studies — mostly for the Anglo-Saxon economies — have generally documented that departures of these three variables from their common trend...
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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 … wealth held in the form of housing (i.e., when stock and housing assets are substitutes), then they will temporarily reduce …
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both stock returns and housing returns. The evidence based on data for 15 OECD countries shows that when agents expect … future stock returns to be higher, they will temporarily allow consumption to rise. Regarding housing returns, if housing …
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both stock returns and housing returns. The evidence based on data for 15 OECD countries shows that when agents expect … future stock returns to be higher, they will temporarily allow consumption to rise. Regarding housing returns, if housing …
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wealth distribution. Middle-class portfolios are dominated by housing, while rich households predominantly own equity. An … house prices. Housing booms lead to substantial wealth gains for leveraged middle-class households and tend to decrease …. This race between the equity market and the housing market shaped wealth dynamics in postwar America and decoupled the …
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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 … wealth held in the form of housing (i.e., when stock and housing assets are substitutes), then they will temporarily reduce …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315965
This paper shows that the fiscal multiplier for purchases of durable and investment goods is very small - much smaller than the multiplier for nondurable goods. Standard models predict small durables multipliers because private sector purchases of durable goods are highly intertemporally...
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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...
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Unconventional fiscal policies incentivize households to accelerate consumption by generating future consumer price ination, and offer an alternative to unconventional monetary policy (Correia et al. (2013)). We use a natural experiment to study the causal effect of unconventional fiscal...
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We investigate dynamics in an overlapping generations economy with Stone-Geary preferences. We show that a steady state exists, and furthermore and importantly, that there can be a multitude of two cycles even though intertemporal elasticity of substitution in consumption exceeds unity
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