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The volume collects the essays presented at the 15th Workshop on Public Finance organised by Banca d'Italia in Perugia from 4 to 6 April 2013. The workshop focused on the link between fiscal policy and macroeconomic imbalances and comprised four sessions. The first session concentrated on the...
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In this paper we present new estimates of the effect of households� financial and real wealth on consumption. The … wealth have a positive effect on consumption. Overall, the influence of net financial assets is stronger than that of real …
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of the processes generating income, social security wealth, retirement and consumption behaviour of households, and …
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in housing values affect consumption. We find that consumer expenditures do react to capital gains, with a marginal … consumers: while homeowners increase consumption when house prices increase, with a marginal propensity of about 0.035, the …
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The paper reconstructs the items of the regional accounts, disposable income and wealth of the household sector for the North-West, North-East, Centre, and South and Islands for the years 1970-1995. The analysis is significant for the length of the sample period, the number of time series...
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This paper studies the determinants of Chinese households� saving. Domestic saving in China is the highest in the world in terms of GDP and it is mirrored in a large and persistent current account surplus. First, we show that notwithstanding the rising contribution of government and firms...
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prices � on private consumption for a panel of sixteen emerging economies in Asia and Central and Eastern Europe. Using … household consumption positively in the long-run, with the elasticity of housing wealth being greater than that of stock market …
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stock market in particular, might rationalize the empirical inconsistency of the Consumption-based Capital Asset Pricing … Model (C-CAPM). The rational behind this stand is that if non-shareholders� consumption growth co-varies with share … returns less than shareholders�, including their expenditure in the consumption measure used to test the model will be …
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This paper analyzes the determinants of Italian households� participation in the debt market, considering both demand and supply effects and using the Bank of Italy�s Survey of Household Income and Wealth. The probability of debt is positively influenced by age (until 35 years), which...
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aversion of 3 or less, for the stock market I estimate an average lower bound of between 0.7 and 3.3 percent of consumption …
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