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The budget constraint requires that, eventually, consumption must adjust fully to any permanent shock to income …
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We explore the role of habit formation in housing in explaining the life-cycle household allocations. Empirical studies about households in the U.S. reveal that the housing profile increases monotonically until age mid-60s and then flattens out. The model is realistically calibrated and solved...
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The budget constraint requires that, eventually, consumption must adjust fully to any permanent shock to income …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010958808
This paper studies the implications of information-processing limits on the consumption and savings behavior of … implementing consumption plan. Moreover, numerical results show that consumers with processing capacity constraints have asymmetric … savings. I show that the predictions of the model can be effectively used to study the impact of tax reforms on consumers …
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This paper analyzes how information-processing limitations affect consumption in a dynamic full-fledged non … model is that consumption responses to wealth shocks are asymmetric, with negative shocks producing faster and stronger … volatility of consumption behavior. (Copyright: Elsevier) …
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There are two stylised facts, namely weak demand for life-annuities and flat age-wealth profile that contradict the life-cycle hypothesis. In this paper we design a theoretical framework, which combines plausible arguments, which have been put forward in the literature to reconcile theory with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294565
We designed a commitment savings product for a Philippine bank and implemented it using a randomized control … methodology. The savings product was intended for individuals who want to commit now to restrict access to their savings, and who … for commitment, were indeed significantly more likely to open the commitment savings account. After twelve months, average …
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We consider the problem of the optimal use of a good whose consumption can produce damages in the future. Potential …
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There are two stylised facts, namely weak demand for life-annuities and flat age-wealth profile that contradict the life-cycle hypothesis. In this paper we design a theoretical framework, which combines plausible arguments, which have been put forward in the literature to reconcile theory with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005800672
We designed a commitment savings product for a Philippine bank and implemented it using a randomized control … methodology. The savings product was intended for individuals who want to commit now to restrict access to their savings, and who … for commitment, were indeed significantly more likely to open the commitment savings account. After twelve months, average …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005146683