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Payment Innovations, the Shadow Economy and Cash Demand of Households in Euro Area Countries
Reimers, Hans-Eggert; Schneider, Friedrich; Seitz, Franz - 2021
We analyze for the first time cash holdings of private households in all euro area countries from 2002 to 2019 within a panel cointegration framework. Besides the traditional determinants of cash demand like transactions balances and opportunity costs, we concentrate on cashless payments media...
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Consumption Patterns of Indebted Households : Unravelling the Relevance of Fiscal Policy
Afonso, António; Sá Fortes Leitão Rodrigues, Eduardo de - 2023
We have investigated the influence of fiscal instruments, notably taxes on income and government spending, on household … consumption in two different samples and two measures of household debt to provide a comprehensive analysis of the topic. We used … government spending or reduced taxes, in the presence of high indebtedness, actually discourage household consumption compared to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014346252
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Measuring Household Inflation Perceptions and Expectations : The Effect of Guided vs Non-Guided Inflation Questions
Hayo, Bernd; Méon, Pierre-Guillaume - 2023
An experiment using a representative survey of the German population shows that letting respondents report a number rather than asking them to choose from a list of predefined ranges lowers the response rate for both perceived past and expected inflation and decreases (increases) reported past...
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Income Taxes and the Mobility of the Rich : Evidence from Us and UK Households in Switzerland
Köthenbürger, Marko; Naguib, Costanza; Stettler, Christian - 2023
We provide quasi-experimental evidence on the income tax-induced migration of foreign high-income households living in Switzerland by exploiting the differential tax treatment of UK and US households. While the two groups are similar in terms of non-tax sorting preferences, US households are...
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The Saving Glut of the Rich and the Rise in Household Debt
Mian, Atif R. - 2020
across states shows that the rise in top income shares can explain almost all of the accumulation of household debt held as a … financial asset by the household sector. Since the Great Recession, the saving glut of the rich has been financing government …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012837475
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Forward Guidance and Household Expectations
Coibion, Olivier - 2020
. Information treatments about current and next year's interest rates have a strong effect on household expectations but treatments …
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Air Pollution and Internal Migration : Evidence from Iranian Household Survey
Gholipour, Hassan F. - 2020
The purpose of this study is to examine the impact of air pollution (measured by satellite data of Aerosol Optical Depth (AOD)) on net outmigration. Using data from the 2011 and 2016 National Population and Housing Censuses for 31 provinces of Iran and applying a panel fixed effects estimation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012841139
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The Role of Information and Experience for Households' Inflation Expectations
Conrad, Christian - 2020
Based on a new survey of German households, we investigate the role of information channels and lifetime experience for households' inflation expectations. We show that the types of information channels that households use to inform themselves about monetary policy are closely related to their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012823151
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Does Policy Communication During COVID Work?
Coibion, Olivier - 2020
Using a large-scale survey of U.S. households during the Covid-19 pandemic, we study how new information about fiscal and monetary policy responses to the crisis affects households' expectations. We provide random subsets of participants in the Nielsen Homescan panel with different combinations...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012830360
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Monetary Policy Communications and Their Effects on Household Inflation Expectations
Smarzynska Javorcik, Beata - 2019
We study how different forms of communication influence the inflation expectations of individuals in a randomized controlled trial. We first solicit individuals’ inflation expectations in the Nielsen Homescan panel and then provide eight different forms of information regarding inflation....
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