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response to the forecasts, extrapolate to expectations about their personal economic circumstances and adjust their consumption … behavior and stock purchases. Extrapolation to expectations about personal unemployment is driven by individuals with higher …
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Unconventional fiscal policy uses announcements of future increases in consumption taxes to generate inflation … expectations and accelerate consumption expenditure. It is budget neutral and time consistent. We provide preliminary evidence for … research has to ensure income, wealth effects, or intratemporal substitution channels cannot explain these results and ideally …
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Unconventional fiscal policies incentivize households to accelerate consumption by generating future consumer price … study the causal effect of unconventional fiscal policies on consumption expenditure via the inflation-expectations channel … foreign households. Income or wealth effects do not appear to drive these results, and we do not find evidence of …
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Unconventional fiscal policy uses announcements of future increases in consumption taxes to generate inflation … expectations and accelerate consumption expenditure. It is budget neutral and time consistent. We exploit a unique natural … countries not exposed to the VAT shock. Income, wealth effects, or intratemporal substitution cannot explain these results …
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consumption, aggregate wealth, and labour income should predict both stock returns and housing returns. We use quarterly data for … temporarily allow consumption to rise. Regarding housing returns, if housing assets are complementary to stocks, then investors … their consumption. …
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deviations from the common trend among consumption, aggregate wealth, and labour income, cay, and focus on the implications for … future stock returns to be higher, they will temporarily allow consumption to rise. Regarding housing returns, if housing … substitutes consumption will be temporarily reduced. …
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deviations from the common trend among consumption, aggregate wealth, and labour income, cay, and focus on the implications for … future stock returns to be higher, they will temporarily allow consumption to rise. Regarding housing returns, if housing … substitutes consumption will be temporarily reduced …
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We identify the causal effect of lump-sum severance payments on non-employment duration in Norway by exploiting a discontinuity in eligibility at age 50. We find that a severance payment worth 1.2 months’ earnings at the median lowers the fraction re-employed after a year by seven percentage...
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Using an intertemporal model of saving and capital accumulation we demonstrate that it is impossible for any binding minimum wage to increase the after-tax incomes of workers if the production function is Cobb-Douglas with constant returns to scale, or if there are no differences in ability...
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We identify the causal effect of lump-sum severance payments on non-employment duration in Norway by exploiting a discontinuity in eligibility at age 50. We find that a severance payment worth 1.2 months’ earnings at the median lowers the fraction re-employed after a year by seven percentage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010561497