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to consume (MPCs). Our main contribution is to document how MPCs vary with household characteristics and prize size, and …
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By means of a laboratory experiment, we show that, contrary to standard consumer theory, financially equivalent balance sheet profiles may be perceived as non fungible in a controlled frictionless environment with no probabilistic attributes. A large majority of subjects indeed have a bias in...
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tap into negative deposits. The credit line acts as a form of insurance. These results are not fully consistent with …
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portfolios, observed in the Household Finance and Consumption Survey (HFCS) for these countries. We then show that the … heterogeneity in household finances implies that responses of consumption to changes in the real interest rate and in house prices …
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We study the redistributive effects of inflation combining administrative bank data with an information provision experiment during an episode of historic inflation. On average, households are well-informed about prevailing inflation and are concerned about its impact on their wealth; yet, while...
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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 …
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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 …
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Evaluating a new survey dataset of German consumers, we test whether individual consumption plans are formed according to an Euler equation derived from consumption life-cycle models. Estimating several consumption Euler equations, the results are mostly in line with the theory: We find evidence...
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Individuals with extensive debt may be granted debt relief in court. We provide a comprehensive evaluation of the Danish debt relief program with data from court records linked to nationwide register data. Using event-study methods and quasi-random assignment of applicants to court trustees with...
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This paper investigates the impact of public employment on household saving rates in China using representative … household-level data. After controlling for a series of variables such as income, risk attitude, financial literacy, and … to a better understanding of Chinese household saving rates, which is of great importance given their extremely high …
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