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consumption without parametric assumptions on the distribution of measurement errors. The estimation results support habit …
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This paper investigates the presence of habit formation in household consumption, using data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics. We develop an econometric model of internal habit formation of the multiplicative specification. The restrictions of the model allow for classical measurement...
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This paper aims to explore how mortgage and consumer loans arrears are affected by household financial and social status as well as macroeconomic situation and banking standards and restrictions. In general, arrears could pose an elevated risk to the financial stability of banks and could...
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This paper discusses the links between earnings, consumption and economic welfare inequality. It places emphasis on the role of leisure and labor supply in the assessment of cross-household inequality and argues that the documented increase of such inequality has its origin in the labor market....
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How much does inequality in life depend on conditions established at age 18? What role does post-18 higher education play? I use an education choice model with exogenous conditions from family wealth, established human capital at age 18 and shocks to human capital to examine these questions....
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The hypothesis is that Pareto and Kaldor-Hicks Efficiency have an aspect of sustainability in relation to inequality. The analysis finds efficient situations reached increasing inequality as diminishing in the long term effective demand in a larger measure than counterbalancing increases thanks...
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Lebenseinkommen verschiedener Bildungsgruppen in Deutschland und damit verbunden eine Berechnung der Bildungsrenditen bestimmter …
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This paper develops and estimates a dynamic model of stock market participation, where consumers’ decisions regarding stock market participation are influenced by participation costs. The practical significance of the participation costs is considered as being a channel through which financial...
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This paper incorporates recent developments in the literature to quantify the amount of interprovincial risk-sharing in Canada. We find that both capital market and the federal tax-transfer system play an almost equally important role (about 26 percent each) in smoothing shocks to gross...
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The recent global recession requires policy makers to identify the relative importance of shock transmission mechanisms … mortgage crisis shock originated in the real sector (falling US housing prices) and was transmitted through trade variables … shock did not spread widely to other regions. Even in the MERCOSUR and SAARC, due to limited goods exports exposure to the …
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