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We examine the effects of monetary policy on household self-assessed financial stress and durable consumption using … savers. We find symmetric effects on durable consumption, mainly driven by mortgagors with high debt burden or limited access …
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We examine the effects of monetary policy on household self-assessed financial stress and durable consumption using … savers. We find symmetric effects on durable consumption, mainly driven by mortgagors with high debt burden or limited access …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012024596
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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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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consumption and hypothetical debt decisions. Our findings suggest that real wealth mediates the sensitivity of consumption to …
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This paper presents a novel method to estimate the depreciation rate of durable goods using a combination of identified marginal and average spending shares. We apply our method to Chinese spending responses to disposable income changes induced by monetary policy in 2008-2009. The marginal...
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In the early 1950s Modigliani, with Brumberg and Ando, formulated the life-cycletheory of consumption and savings that …
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In the early 1950s Modigliani, with Brumberg and Ando, formulated the life-cycletheory of consumption and savings that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010752552
The wealthy hand-to-mouth are households who hold little or no liquid wealth (cash, checking, and savings accounts), despite owning sizable amounts of illiquid assets (assets that carry a transaction cost, such as housing or retirement accounts). We use survey data on household portfolios for...
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more than in a VAR (e.g. 2.61 vs. 2.04 for peak multipliers). Furthermore, our evidence suggests that consumption is …
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