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MPC Heterogeneity in Europe : Sources and Policy Implications
Ampudia, Miguel - 2018
This paper studies household financial choices in four euro area countries. The goal of the analysis is to understand … household income and asset market returns, has a differential impact on individuals within and across countries. Generally, poor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480733
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Social Security and Household Portfolio Allocation
Hubbard, R. Glenn - 1984
The entitlement to social security retirement benefits is a major component of aggregate household wealth. This paper … focuses on the impact of social security annuities on household portfolio allocation, extending existing optimizing models of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012477729
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Grandmothers and Granddaughters : Old Age Pension and Intra-household Allocation in South Africa
Duflo, Esther - 2000
similar effect for pensions received by men. This suggests that the household does not function as a unitary entity, and that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470671
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Health and Mortality Delta : Assessing the Welfare Cost of Household Insurance Choice
Koijen, Ralph - 2011
Retirement Study. For the median household aged 51 to 57, the lifetime welfare cost of market incompleteness and suboptimal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461333
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Social Security Claiming Intentions : Psychological Ownership, Loss Aversion, and Information Displays
Shu, Suzanne B.; Payne, John W. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
For many Americans the question of when to claim Social Security benefits is one of the most consequential financial decisions they will ever face. While acknowledging that individuals differ in terms of optimal timing for starting Social Security benefits, many economists argue that an average...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014322886
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The Effect of Macroeconomic Uncertainty on Household Spending
Coibion, Olivier; Georgarakos, Dimitris; Gorodnichenko, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
luxury goods. Moreover, uncertainty reduces household propensity to invest in mutual funds. These results support the notion … that macroeconomic uncertainty can impact household decisions and have large negative effects on economic outcomes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012496179
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Portfolio Flows and Household Portfolios
Kaat, Daniel Marcel te; Ma, Chang; Rebucci, Alessandro - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
" speech in July 2012 with household data from the ECB's Household Finance and Consumption Survey, we find that portfolio …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014512064
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Who Bears the Costs of Inflation? Euro Area Households and the 2021–2022 Shock
Pallotti, Filippo; Paz Pardo, Gonzalo; Slacalek, Jirka; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
framework illustrating the numerous channels of the transmission mechanism of surprise inflation to household welfare guides our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014437027
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Stellungnahme des Wirtschafts- und Sozialausschusses zum Thema "Wirtschaftswachstum, Besteuerung und Nachhaltigkeit der Rentensysteme in der EU"
Europäischer Wirtschafts- und Sozialausschuss - 2001
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001639005
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The Stability and Growth Pact as an Impediment to Privatizing Social Security
Razin, Assaf - 2002
The aging of the population shakes the confidence in the economic viability of pay-as-you-go social security systems. We demonstrate how in a political-economy framework the shaken cofidence leads to the downsizing of the social security-system, and to the emergence of supplemental individual...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012469430