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Updating the retirement-consumption puzzle in Italy : who are the most affected?
Marini, Andrea - 2024
composed of essential expenditures. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014528252
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The Effect of Unconventional Fiscal Policy on Consumption Expenditure
D'Acunto, Francesco - 2016
Unconventional fiscal policy uses announcements of future increases in consumption taxes to generate inflation expectations and accelerate consumption expenditure. It is budget neutral and time consistent. We exploit a unique natural experiment for an empirical test of the effectiveness of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012984119
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Non-Durable Consumption and Housing Net Worth in the Great Recession : Evidence from Easily Accessible Data
Kaplan, Greg - 2016
housing net worth on household expenditures during the Great Recession. Their widely-cited estimates are based on proprietary … specification on our data, we obtain values for the elasticity of expenditures to the housing net worth shock that are virtually … conclusions about the separate roles of house prices and initial housing exposure/leverage for the drop in expenditures. Moreover …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012992649
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The Permanent Income Hypothesis and Consumption Durability : Analysis Based on Japanese Panel Data
Hayashi, Fumio - 2021
commodity groups. Consumption is a distributed lag function of expenditures, and the utility function is additively separable in … each commodity group, expected change in expenditures is correlated neither with past expenditure changes on other …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013218128
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Cyclical drivers of euro area consumption : what can we learn from durable goods?
Casalis, André; Krustev, Georgi - 2020
durable from nondurable expenditures. We adopt a theoretical partial equilibrium framework to justify the identification …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012197836
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The Dynamics of Car Sales : A Discrete Choice Approach
Adda, Jerome - 2006
Mankiw [1982] explores the Permanent Income Hypothesis implication that durable expenditures follow an ARMA(1 …,1) representation. He finds that durable expenditures are represented by an AR(1) process which implies that the rate of depreciation of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012783955
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Mortgage Rates, Household Balance Sheets, and the Real Economy
Keys, Benjamin J. - 2014
This paper investigates the impact of lower mortgage rates on household balance sheets and other economic outcomes during the housing crisis. We use proprietary loan-level panel data matched to consumer credit records using borrowers' Social Security numbers, which allows for accurate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013046153
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Patterns of Trade in the Market for Used Durables : Theory and Evidence
Porter, Robert H.; Sattler, Peter - 2022
The consumption value of a durable good diminishes as it ages due to physical deterioration and consumers' preference for the new. We develop a model of consumer specialization and trade in the market for used durables based on imperfect substitutability. Imperfect substitutability across...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013308470
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Designing Dynamic Subsidies to Spur Adoption of New Technologies
Langer, Ashley; Lemoine, Derek - 2021
We analyze the efficient subsidy for durable good technologies. We theoretically demonstrate that a policymaker faces a tension between intertemporally price discriminating by designing a subsidy that increases over time and taking advantage of future technological progress by designing a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013224980
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On-the-job search and the cyclical dynamics of the labor market
Krause, Michael (contributor); Lubik, Thomas A. (contributor) - 2007
We show how on-the-job search and the propagation of shocks to the economy are intricately linked. Rising search by employed workers in a boom amplifies the incentives of firms to post vacancies. In turn, more vacancies increases job search. By keeping job creation costs low for firms,...
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