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-gap. Moreover, the consumption decline appears to be concentrated in households in the lower part of the wealth distribution …. Nonetheless, households in the lowest wealth quintile, do not show a significant consumption decline. The data suggests that this … composed of essential expenditures. …
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durable from nondurable expenditures. We adopt a theoretical partial equilibrium framework to justify the identification …
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) houses when their wealth-to-housing ratios reach an optimal lower (upper) boundary. However, in our model, these boundaries … a more expensive house in periods of high expected growth in house prices have significantly lower ex-ante wealth …-to-housing ratios than those moving in periods of low expected growth. We also find that the share of wealth invested in risky assets is …
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The present System of National Accounts (SNA93) treats durable consumption goods as consumption goods rather than investment although rentals for owner occupied households is imputed into GDP. We argue that households de facto treat the purchase of durable goods as investments and thus, the...
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durable from nondurable expenditures. We adopt a theoretical partial equilibrium framework to justify the identification …
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The paper analyzes the problems of measurement of durable consumer prices posed by quality change. Theoretical price indexes are defined and used to analyze several empirical methods of estimation of quality adjusted price indexes. The paper shows that hedonic regressions and other quality...
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Globalisation has a major impact on the levels and distribution of wealth. The financial markets are highly integrated … wealth over the past 25 years. Nonetheless, this has not led to an equally large increase in property income because the … decrease in rates of return seems to contradict claims that, due to an increase in both financial and inherited wealth, we are …
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This paper studies the effects of quantitative easing on income and wealth of individual euro area households. The … which key variables affecting household income and wealth are included, such as the unemployment rate, wages, interest rates … contrast, monetary policy has only negligible effects on wealth inequality. …
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. Finally, substantial crosscountry heterogeneity in marginal propensities to consume out of income and wealth components calls …
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area M3. Wefind that the elasticities in the money demand and the real wealth relations identified previously in Beyer …-to-real transformation is not rejected for the money relation whereas the wealth relation cannot be expressed in real terms. …
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