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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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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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Scarcity and Consumption Priorities
Dahan, Momi; Sayag, Doron - 2023
This paper focuses on whether households facing economic scarcity tend to change consumption priorities as measured by the share of spending on necessity goods relative to luxury goods in a large national supermarket chain in Israel for the years 2011–2018. Based on detailed weekly revenue...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014358647
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Consumer Debt and Default : A Macro Perspective
Exler, Florian - 2020
In this survey, we review the quantitative macroeconomic literature analyzing consumer debt and default. We start by providing an overview of consumer bankruptcy law in the US and document the relevant institutional changes over time. We proceed with a comprehensive empirical section, describing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012841141
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Furlough and Household Financial Distress During the Covid-19 Pandemic
Görtz, Christoph; McGowan, Danny; Yeromonahos, Mallory - 2021
We study how furlough affects household financial distress during the COVID-19 pandemic. Furlough increases the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013212266
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Perceived Precautionary Savings Motives : Evidence from FinTech
D'Acunto, Francesco - 2020
We study the spending response of first-time borrowers to an overdraft facility and elicit their preferences, beliefs, and motives through a FinTech application. Users increase their spending permanently, lower their savings rate, and reallocate spending from non-discretionary to discretionary...
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Monetary Policy Transmission to Consumer Financial Stress and Durable Consumption
Georgarakos, Dimitris - 2019
We examine the effects of monetary policy on household self-assessed financial stress and durable consumption using … panel data from eighteen annual waves of the British Household Panel Survey. For identification, we exploit random variation … in household exposure to interest rates generated by the random timing of household interview dates with respect to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012866373
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Pandemic Consumption
Bachmann, Rüdiger; Bayer, Christian; Kornejew, Martin - 2023
This paper examines how households adjusted their consumption behavior in response to COVID-19 infection risk during the early phase of the pandemic. We use a monthly consumption survey specifically designed by the German Statistical Office covering the second wave of COVID-19 infections from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014356975
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Financial Frictions and the Wealth Distribution
Fernández-Villaverde, Jesús - 2020
are important properties of the data. In comparison, the representative household version of the model cannot generate any …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012825400
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Monetary Policy, Price Setting, and Credit Constraints
Balleer, Almut - 2019
We estimate the effects of monetary policy on price-setting behavior in administrative micro data underlying the German producer price index. We find a strong degree of monetary non-neutrality. After expansionary monetary policy, the mass of additional price adjustments is economically small and...
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