We evaluate the impact of loan-to-value restrictions on household financial vulnerability. Using Norwegian tax data, we first document a beneficial leverage effect, in which households respond to the regulation by reducing house purchase probabilities, debt and interest expenses. Second, we...

This paper investigates how monetary expansion affects household consumption and savings through household debts. Using monetary policy cuts in China in the end of 2008 as an experiment, we find that the resulted increase in indebted households’ disposable income leads to increasing...

This paper develops a new class of poverty and inequality measures we call common prosperity. This measure complements existing classes of measures and allows decomposition across income sources or components of consumption expenditure. This framework enables us to study the trade-off between...

The workshop aims to bring together researchers in the fields of quantitative and empirical macroeconomics with a special focus on income dynamics and the family. Topics shall include income dynamics, within-household insurance mechanisms against individual income risk, household formation,...

The workshop will be on its third edition in the 2022 Summer Forum. It will convene some of the world’s leading researchers in the field of economic and social networks. The workshop is designed broadly to include work at the frontier of research in economic and social networks – work that,...

In recent years an exciting economic literature has emerged that seeks to understand disparities in economic development across countries by going far back in history. Distant historical events can often be linked to long-lasting effects on institutions, culture, human capital and technology; in...

The workshop will bring together researchers that study how different contexts of social interactions (preferences, cognitive skills, personality, institution, culture, etc.) or institutions affect the possibility of solving or mitigating coordination problems. We are regularly checking safety...

This workshop aims at discussing research on the frontier of macro labor economics. We encourage theoretical and empirical submissions from all macro labor areas, including, but not limited to, discrimination in the labor market, search and matching, interactions between family and the labor...

Using OeNB Euro Survey data from fall 2020, we will briefly address the questions: Who has been affected by the covid-19 pandemic and how severely? We will look at the results along three dimensions: (1) across main socio-economic characteristics, (2) across regions and countries, (3) across...

Die zweitägige Academy of Behavioral Economics 2017 richtet sich an Entscheider, Denker und Berater aus Wirtschaft, Politik und Gesellschaft. Sie gewährt Einblicke in die Rolle des nur beschränkt rationalen, menschlichen Verhaltens sowie dessen Konsequenzen für Unternehmen, Märkte und...