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Using a new nationally representative survey of financial capability and experience in the UK and Ireland, I investigate the key factors that cause individuals to experience financial distress. In this context, a key area that I focus on is whether individuals’ behavioural traits, such as...
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in the measurement of household welfare all material components should be covered, i.e. consumption, income and wealth … consumption, income and wealth can be analysed. Current researches linking macro and micro information for the households have … to household wealth using both survey data and financial accounts. It builds a link between wealth survey and national …
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In this paper we present an empirically stable money demand model for Euro area M3. We show that housing wealth is an …
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equity and labour markets. Equity positively affects money demand through wealth effects, as equities are a significant store … of household wealth and thus part of a financial transaction motive. Negative substitution effects through the expected … money. All three new elements, in particular housing and financial wealth, have been found statistically and economically …
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Based on the households' utility maximisation, a closed form approximation of the consumption function is derived and the deep parameters of the consumption function are estimated using aggregate euro area data. The novel element in our approach is the parameterisation of the information content...
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is affected by the gap between `target' and actual wealth, with the target wealth determined by credit conditions and … saving rate's long-term decline, while fluctuations in net wealth and uncertainty capture the bulk of the business …
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Crossing borders, be it international or regional, often go together with price, wage or indeed wealth discontinuities …. This paper identifies substantial wealth differences between Luxembourg resident households and cross-border commuter … households despite their similar incomes. The average (median) net wealth difference is estimated to be €367,000 (€129,000) and …
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-simulations to investigate heterogeneity in the euro area. We quantify shocks to wealth, income and financial pressure faced by … affected the income-poor, while the declining wealth the income-rich. Although borrowers benefited from the substantial … consumption growth driven by both rich and poor households: while the former were hit by large shocks to wealth, the latter also …
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There is a need to find better models and indicators for large disruptive events, not least in order to be more prepared and mitigate their effects. In this paper we take a step in this direction and discuss the performance of a financial stress indicator with a specific focus on the euro area....
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