effect of wealth shocks on household consumption and individual expectations of the future. Many household experienced a … significant wealth shocks, but these shocks led to modest spending effects and small revisions to expectations regarding future … bequests. Expectations of bequests seem particularly tied to housing wealth. …

We estimate marginal propensities to consume from wealth shocks for Italian households. Large asset price shocks in … 2008 underpin an IV estimator. A euro fall in financial or risky financial wealth resulted in cuts in annual total (non … changes in housing wealth are 0.2 to 0.4 cents/euro. Counterfactuals indicate financial wealth effects were important …