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This paper focuses on whether households facing economic scarcity tend to change consumption priorities as measured by … feast-related goods, indicating a “feast and famine” consumption strategy. Nevertheless, spending on food with label claims …
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How much and over what horizon do households adjust their consumption in response to stock market wealth shocks? We …
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By means of a laboratory experiment, we show that, contrary to standard consumer theory, financially equivalent balance … large majority of subjects indeed have a bias in the perception of wealth, such that balance sheet composition matters: for … implies greater perceived wealth. The predominance of this bias is explained by low cognitive sophistication and great …
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We examine the effects of monetary policy on household self-assessed financial stress and durable consumption using … savers. We find symmetric effects on durable consumption, mainly driven by mortgagors with high debt burden or limited access …
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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 September to November 2020. Households reduced their consumption …
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consumption in two different samples and two measures of household debt to provide a comprehensive analysis of the topic. We used … fiscal impulses increase private consumption, but when households are highly indebted, patterns change, and increased … government spending or reduced taxes, in the presence of high indebtedness, actually discourage household consumption compared to …
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We propose two novel methods to "bring ABMs to the data". First, we put forward a new Bayesian procedure to estimate the numerical values of ABM parameters that takes into account the time structure of simulated and observed time series. Second, we propose a method to forecast aggregate time...
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Agents forming adaptive expectations generally make systematic mistakes. This characterization has fostered the rejection of adaptive expectations in macroeconomics. Experimental evidence, however, shows that in complex environments human subjects frequently rely on adaptive heuristics –...
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Experimental and empirical findings suggest that non-pecuniary motivations play a significant role as determinants of taxpayers’ decision to comply with the tax authority and shape their perceptions and assessment of the tax code. By contrast, the canonical optimal income taxation model...
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We show how normative standpoints determine optimal taxation of wealth. Since wealth is not equal to capital, we find … functions based on money-metric utility, high land rent taxes are optimal due to a portfolio effect. Third, if society …
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