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We consider a neoclassical growth model with quasi-hyperbolic discounting under Kantian optimization: each temporal self acts in a way that they would like every future self to act. We introduce the notion of a Kantian policy as an outcome of Kantian optimization in a given class of policies. We...
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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, consumption and wealth to quantify the degree of insurance against income risk. The …
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The role of inherited wealth in modern economies has increasingly become under scrutiny. This study presents one of the … share of total wealth in a given economy. Thus, aging is not likely to explain a recent surge in this share in some advanced …
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This paper studies the heterogeneity of the marginal propensity to consume out of wealth based on French household … surveys. This heterogeneity is driven by differences in both wealth composition and wealth levels. We find a decreasing … marginal propensity to consume out of wealth across the wealth distribution for all net wealth components. The marginal …
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foreign households. Income or wealth effects do not appear to drive these results, and we do not find evidence of …
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countries not exposed to the VAT shock. Income, wealth effects, or intratemporal substitution cannot explain these results. …
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The empirical effectiveness of economic policies that operate theoretically through similar channels differs substantially. We document this fact by comparing an easy-to-grasp expectations-based policy, unconventional fiscal policy, with a policy whose implications are harder to understand by...
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research has to ensure income, wealth effects, or intratemporal substitution channels cannot explain these results and ideally …
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We use sizeable lottery prizes in Norwegian administrative panel data to characterize households' marginal propensities to consume (MPCs). Our main contribution is to document how MPCs vary with household characteristics and prize size, and how lottery prizes are spent and saved over time. We...
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It has been argued that increased life expectancy raises the rate of return on education, causing a rise in the investment in education followed by an increase in lifetime labor supply. Empirical evidence of these relations is rather weak. Building on a lifecycle model with uncertain longevity,...
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