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aggregate consumption for longer. …
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person is self-employed. We observe that the past relationship between income and consumption is also an important …
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We show how tax kinks can be used to estimate the marginal propensity to consume (MPC). Tax kinks create discrete changes in the relationship between taxable income and disposable income, which – under a set of testable assumptions – enables causal identification of the spending response to...
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This paper studies the direct impact of households' debt on consumption over the business cycle. We use household … leverage, consumption, and asset prices. We find that debt levels exert a negative impact on consumption, which is particularly …' debt in past periods are not relevant in determining consumption; (ii) households adjust faster their consumption to debt …
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The cost-of-living crisis has increased attention on consumption and how it differs for particular societal groups …. There is much theoretical evidence that consumption patterns of men and women should differ, but the empirical evidence is … scant, due in part to the availability of individual-level consumption data. This paper tackles the question of consumption …
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in a model with non-durable and durable consumption. The stock of the durable is exposed to risk against which households …-durable consumption. Introducing labor income risk into the model does not necessarily increase the importance of market insurance if the …
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effects. We exploit the unique design of an aid program's experimental trial to identify its indirect effect on consumption …
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.6 percentage points in Switzerland. The response of non-housing consumption in Switzerland is less heterogeneous across renters and …
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This paper employs Swedish data on households' stock holdings to investigate how consumption responds to changes in … a flat 5 percent for the rest of the distribution. Households' consumption is significantly more responsive to dividend …
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We examine the effects of monetary policy on household self-assessed financial stress and durable consumption using … savers. We find symmetric effects on durable consumption, mainly driven by mortgagors with high debt burden or limited access …
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