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Investing at home and abroad : different costs, different people
Christelis, Dimitris; Georgarakos, Dimitris - 2009
We investigate US households' direct investment in stocks, bonds and liquid accounts and their foreign counterparts, in order to identify the different participation hurdles affecting asset investment domestically and overseas. To this end, we estimate a trivariate probit model with three...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003947444
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Why are saving rates so high in China?
Yang, Dennis Tao; Zhang, Junsen; Zhou, Shaojie - 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008934967
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Why are saving rates so high in China?
Yang, Dennis Tao; Zhang, Junsen; Zhou, Shaojie - 2011
existing studies, we analyze the sources and causes of China's high and rising saving rates in the government, corporate, and … household sectors. Although the causes of China's high saving are complex, we suggest that the evolving economic, demographic … structure ; China …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009126989
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Household economic decisions under the shadow of terrorism
Christelis, Dimitris; Georgarakos, Dimitris - 2009
We investigate, using the 2002 US Health and Retirement Study, the factors influencing individuals' insecurity and expectations about terrorism, and study the effects these last have on households' portfolio choices and spending patterns. We find that females, the religiously devout, those...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003864066
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Stockholding : from participation to location and to participation spillovers
Christelis, Dimitris; Georgarakos, Dimitris; Chaliasos, … - 2009
This paper provides a joint analysis of household stockholding participation, stock location among stockholding modes, and participation spillovers, using data from the US Survey of Consumer Finances. Our multivariate choice model matches observed participation rates, conditional and...
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Deconstructing household wealth trends in the United States, 1983 - 2013
Wolff, Edward N. - 2016
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Is wealth becoming more polarized in the United States?
D'Ambrosio, Conchita (contributor);  … - 2001
Recent work has documented a rising degree of wealth inequality in the United States between 1983 and 1998. In this paper, we look at another dimension of the distribution, polarization. Using techniques developed by Esteban and Ray (1994) and further extended by D'Ambrosio (2001), we examine...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003206181
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Forward Guidance and Household Expectations
Coibion, Olivier - 2020
We compare the causal effects of forward guidance communication about future interest rates on households' expectations of inflation, mortgage rates, and unemployment to the effects of communication about future inflation in a randomized controlled trial using more than 25,000 U.S. individuals...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012840692
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Forward Guidance and Household Expectations
Coibion, Olivier - 2020
We compare the causal effects of forward guidance communication about future interest rates on households' expectations of inflation, mortgage rates, and unemployment to the effects of communication about future inflation in a randomized controlled trial using more than 25,000 U.S. individuals...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012840847
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Forward Guidance and Household Expectations
Coibion, Olivier - 2020
We compare the causal effects of forward guidance communication about future interest rates on households' expectations of inflation, mortgage rates, and unemployment to the effects of communication about future inflation in a randomized controlled trial using more than 25,000 U.S. individuals...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012840991