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wealth. These changes causally affect actual consumption and hypothetical debt decisions. Our findings suggest real wealth … mediates the sensitivity of consumption to inflation once households are aware of the wealth effects of inflation. …
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consumption and hypothetical debt decisions. Our findings suggest that real wealth mediates the sensitivity of consumption to …
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consumption via managing inflation expectations based on the Euler equation. Unconventional fiscal policy uses trivial … announcements of future consumer-price increases to boost inflation expectations and consumption expenditure on impact. Instead …
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to account for anticipation effects on consumption. We investigate this using high-frequency spending and balance sheet … with a standard buffer-stock consumption model, and implies that it is less effective to target stimulus to low liquidity …
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This paper estimates the elasticity of intertemporal substitution for the euro area. It leverages the unique design of the Consumer Expectations Survey in Europe to directly infer it from the Euler equation. Our final estimates range between 0.7 and 0.8 for the euro area as a whole, which are...
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English Abstract: This paper explores the heterogeneous effects of monetary policy on consumption between workers and … retirees. Using household-level data from the U.S., Italy, Japan and Korea, we first show that the consumption of retirees … in order to study the mechanism of the differential effects on consumption of workers and retirees of monetary policy …
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, the paper analyzes the impact of a monetary policy shock on households' current consumption and durable expenditures … depends on their debt and income levels. In particular, households with higher debt tend to reduce their current consumption …
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We field a series of experiments in a population-representative survey of European consumers to examine their attitudes towards the possible introduction of a digital euro. First, we show that a short video explaining the key features of the digital euro is effective in changing consumers'...
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dynamic general equilibrium model where households' utility depends on consumption deviations from a reference level below … consumption loom larger than gains. State-dependent degrees of real rigidity and elasticity of intertemporal substitution in … consumption generate competing effects on output and infl ation. The resulting state-dependent trade-off between output and infl …
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