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consumption, aggregate wealth, and labour income should predict both stock returns and housing returns. We use quarterly data for … temporarily allow consumption to rise. Regarding housing returns, if housing assets are complementary to stocks, then investors … their consumption. …
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deviations from the common trend among consumption, aggregate wealth, and labour income, cay, and focus on the implications for … future stock returns to be higher, they will temporarily allow consumption to rise. Regarding housing returns, if housing … substitutes consumption will be temporarily reduced. …
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uncertainty on households' consumption-savings decision. Applying a structural demand model to German survey data, we estimate the … significant effects of precautionary savings on the consumption-savings decision. As a result of a doubling of transitory income …
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The well-documented positive correlation between income risk and wealth was interpreted as evidence for high amounts of precautionary wealth in various studies. However, the large estimates emerged from pooling non-entrepreneurs and entrepreneurs without controlling for heterogeneity. This paper...
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Much analysis in macroeconomics empirically addresses economy-wide incentives behind consumer/investment choices by using insights from the way a single representative household would behave. Heterogeneity at the micro level can jeopardize attempts to back up the representative consumer...
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This paper extends the idea of using ex-ante risk measures in a model of precautionary savings by explicitly simulating future net-income risks. The uncertainty measure takes into account the interdependency of labour market status and health. The model is estimated for prime age males using the...
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We use a life-cycle model of consumption and portfolio choice to study the effects of social security on the investment …
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We use a life-cycle model of consumption and portfolio choice to study the effects of social security on the investment …
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We use a life cycle model of consumption and portfolio choice to study the effects of social security on the investment …
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household consumption. Using a pseudo panel that has been constructed on rich German consumption survey data, we estimate the … consumption responses to permanent and transitory income shocks, as well as the presence of excess sensitivity to anticipated … anticipated income changes for households in the constrained regime if total consumption, durable as well as non-durable, is …
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