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Consumption, wealth and business cycles in Germany
Hamburg, Britta (contributor); Hoffmann, Mathias (contributor) - 2005
This paper studies the long-run relationship between consumption, asset wealth and income in Germany, based on data from 1980 to 2003. While earlier studies mostly for the Anglo- Saxon economies have generally documented that departures of these three variables from their common trend signal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002756342
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Mapping educational disparities in life-cycle consumption
Hougaard Jensen, Svend Erik; Olafsson, Sigurdur P.; … - 2022
This paper uses data taken from the tax returns of all Icelandic taxpayers in 2005-2019, a period that saw large changes in disposable income around the country's financial crisis in 2008, to plot the life-cycle path of consumption and income for different education groups and to estimate the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013287969
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Dynamic spending responses to wealth shocks : evidence from quasi-lotteries on the stock market
Andersen, Asger Lau; Johannesen, Niels; Sheridan, Adam - 2021
How much and over what horizon do households adjust their consumption in response to stock market wealth shocks? We address these questions using granular data on spending and stock portfolios from a large bank and exploiting lottery-like variation in gains across investors with similar...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012597298
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Time variation in lifecycle consumption and income
Aksoy, Yunus; Basso, Henrique S.; St. Aubyn, Carolyn - 2020
We document systematic and significant time variation in US lifecycle non-durable consumption profiles. Consumption profiles have consistently become flatter: differences in consumption across generations have decreased. Pooling data across different periods to identify lifecycle profiles masks...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012177052
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The relationship between healthcare expenditure and disposable personal income in the US states : a fractional integration and cointegration analysis
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Cuñado Eizaguirre, Juncal; … - 2015
period 1966-2009 using fractional integration and cointegration techniques. The degree of integration and non-linearity of … both series are found to vary considerably across states, whilst the fractional cointegration analysis suggests that a long …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011283833
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Revisiting the great ratios hypothesis
Chudik, Alexander; Pesaran, M. Hashem; Smith, Ron - 2022
little evidence for them. We argue that this outcome could be due to episodic failure of cointegration, possible two …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013041372
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The (after) life-cycle theory of religious contributions
Blomberg, Stephen Brock (contributor);  … - 2006
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003456233
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Differences in euro-area household finances and their relevance for monetary-policy transmission
Hintermaier, Thomas; Koeniger, Winfried - 2018
This paper quantifies the extent of heterogeneity in consumption responses to changes in real interest rates and house prices in the four largest economies in the euro area: France, Germany, Italy, and Spain. We first calibrate a life-cycle incomplete-markets model with a liquid financial asset...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011863469
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Budgetary and external imbalances relationship : a panel data diagnostic
Afonso, António; Rault, Christophe - 2009
We assess the cointegration relationship between current account and budget balances, and effective real exchange rates …, using recent bootstrap panel cointegration techniques and SUR methods. We investigate the magnitude of the relationship … panel cointegration tests used allow for within and between correlation, while the SUR results show both positive and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003808652
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Interest rate linkages in EMU countries : a rolling threshold vector error-correction approach
Poghosyan, Tigran (contributor); Haan, Jakob de (contributor) - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003499692