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Consumption patterns of indebted households : unravelling the relevance of fiscal policy

Afonso, António; Rodrigues, Eduardo de Sá Fortes Leitão - 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 dynamic panel models and the GMM approach for...

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Unemployment and Consumption: Are Job Losses Less Painful near the Mediterranean?

Bentolila, Samuel; Ichino, Andrea - 2000

In this paper we analyze the relationship between unemployment and consumption. We study this relationship with panel data on households in five countries: Spain and Italy (the South), and Germany, Britain, and the US (the North). Our empirical results indicate that an increase in the duration...

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Should unemployment insurance be asset-tested

Koehne, Sebastian; Kuhn, Moritz - 2013

We study asset-tested unemployment insurance in an incomplete markets model with moral hazard during job search. Asset testing has two counteracting effects on welfare. On the one hand, it improves consumption insurance by introducing state contingent transfers to agents most in need. On the...

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Buffer-stock saving and households' response to income shocks

Fella, Giulio; Frache, Serafin; Koeniger, Winfried - 2016

We use the Italian Survey of Household Income and Wealth, a rather unique dataset with a long time dimension of panel information on consumption, income and wealth, to structurally estimate a buffer-stock saving model. We exploit the information contained in the joint dynamics of income,...

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The saving glut of the rich and the rise in household debt

Mian, Atif; Straub, Ludwig; Sufi, Amir - 2020

Rising income inequality since the 1980s in the United States has generated a substantial increase in saving by the top of the income distribution, which we call the saving glut of the rich. The saving glut of the rich has been as large as the global saving glut, and it has not been associated...

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Time savings when working from home

Aksoy, Cevat Giray; Barrero, Jose Maria; Bloom, Nicholas; … - 2023

We quantify the commute time savings associated with work from home, drawing on data for 27 countries. The average … daily time savings when working from home is 72 minutes in our sample. We estimate that work from home saved about two hours …. Workers allocate 40 percent of their time savings to their jobs and about 11 percent to caregiving activities. People living …

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What do we really know about fiscal sustainability in the EU? : a panel data diagnostic

Afonso, António (contributor); … - 2008

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Low skill but high volatility?

Buch, Claudia M.; Pierdzioch, Christian - 2009

Globalization may impose a double-burden on low-skilled workers. On the one hand, the relative supply of low-skilled labor increases. This suppresses wages of low-skilled workers and/or increases their unemployment rates. On the other hand, low-skilled workers typically face more limited access...

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The role of the corporate income tax as an automatic stabilizer

Büttner, Thiess; Fuest, Clemens - 2009

This paper analyses the effectiveness of the corporate income tax as an automatic stabilizer. It employs a unique firm-level dataset of German manufacturers combining financial statements with firm-specific information about credit market restrictions. The results show that approximately 20 per...

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Financial frictions and inflation differentials in a monetary union

Hristov, Nikolay; Hülsewig, Oliver; Wollmershäuser, Timo - 2010

This paper employs a stylized New Keynesian DSGE model for a monetary union to analyze whether cyclical inflation differentials can be explained by cross-country differences concerning the characteristics of financial markets. Our results suggest that empirically plausible degrees of...

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