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In this paper, we analyze the borrowing behavior of Japanese households in comparison to the other Group of Seven (G7) countries and also broken down by the age group of the household head. We find that pre-retirement households (households with a head in the 50-59 age group) in Japan do not...
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for the extent of cross‐country asymmetries in aggregate consumption responses to changes in the real interest rate …. Across groups with different housing tenure, we find that the consumption response of homeowners to interest rate changes …
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This paper quantifies the extent of heterogeneity in consumption responses to changes in real interest rates and house … portfolios, observed in the Household Finance and Consumption Survey (HFCS) for these countries. We then show that the … heterogeneity in household finances implies that responses of consumption to changes in the real interest rate and in house prices …
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In this paper, we first provide a brief exposition of the simplest version of the selfish life cycle model or hypothesis, which is undoubtedly the most widely used theoretical model of household behavior in economics, and then survey the literature on household saving behavior in Japan (with...
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This paper quantifies the extent of heterogeneity in consumption responses to changes in real interest rates and house …, observed in the Household Finance and Consumption Survey (HFCS) for these countries. We then show that the heterogeneity in … household finances implies that responses of consumption to changes in the real interest rate and in house prices differ …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012129430
This paper quantifies the extent of heterogeneity in consumption responses to changes in real interest rates and house …, observed in the Household Finance and Consumption Survey (HFCS) for these countries. We then show that the heterogeneity in … household finances implies that responses of consumption to changes in the real interest rate and in house prices differ …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012133482
for consumption of the individual worker. However, most household panel surveys contain consumption information only at … the household level. We show that proxying individual consumption by household consumption biases estimated Frisch … elasticities downward as limited commitment in the household induces individual consumption to behave differently from household …
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estimation, we find individual consumption to depend on personal beyond national headline inflation. Foreign shocks to selected … goods’ inflation affect disproportionately households with greater consumption basket weights on these goods and make them … increase consumption by an extra 1.3% per percentage point of higher inflation exposure, financed with more net borrowing …
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more likely to enter forbearance, irrespective of income shocks. Mortgage payment suspension increases consumption and …
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I use a quasi-experiment in Norway to examine how households respond to capital taxation. The introduction of a new wealth assessment methodology in 2010 led to geographic discontinuities in household exposure to wealth taxes, along both the extensive and intensive margins. I exploit this novel...
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