We have estimated a new measure of pension wealth gains, covering the working-age population in Denmark during 2015-2022, in collaboration with Statistics Denmark. By linking this new data to the existing income and tax registers at the individual level, we provide a full picture of net...

Interest-only mortgages (IOMs) were popular before the 2007-2008 financial crisis, e.g. in the US and UK, and remain common in a few countries today, including the Netherlands, Sweden and Denmark. We use Danish administrative data, covering all mortgage loans originated between 2010 and 2019, to...

In this paper, we evaluate Danish homeowners' interest-rate sensitivity in terms of the partial effect of a 1 percentage point increase in interest rates on homeowners cash flows and balance sheets. We construct two measures to quantify the effect of an increase in interest rates on homeowners....

This paper offers new empirical evidence on the marginal propensity to consume out of an unanticipated liquidity shock. A Danish 2012 policy reform reduced the incentive to retire early in order to increase labour supply but at the same time the policy released a substantial amount of savings...

Measuring the effect of an unanticipated reduction in tax credits on pension savings, this paper shows that individuals tend to make extraordinary repayments on their debt when saving in retirement accounts becomes less attractive. We conclude that tax-favoured retirement accounts could affect...

We examine whether unanticipated changes in home values drive spending and mortgage-based equity extraction. To do this we use longitudinal survey data with subjective information about current and expected future home values to calculate unanticipated home value changes. We link this...

This paper uses two decades of individual level information from Danish administrative registers to show that a 1-dollar increase in pension wealth leads to a 26-cent rise in total debt. We exploit time-sector variation in mandatory pension contribution rates to isolate the effect of pension...