the creation of the Eurozone, fiscal policy has been at the heart of economic (but also political/media) discussions in … the EU. From the Stability and Growth Pact (1997) to the more recent Fiscal Treaty, EU and Eurozone, countries have been … subject to various fiscal rules. The importance of these rules, and of the subsequent procedures that every Eurozone country …

from the 2010 Household Finance and Consumption Survey (HFCS). We are particularly interested in the way in which specific …

households using data from the Household Finance and Consumption Survey (HFCS). The capital gains from bond price and equity … price increases turn out to be concentrated among relatively few households, while the median household strongly benefits … from housing price increases. The capital gains from bond price increases (relative to household net wealth) do not …

We study the role of household saving behaviour, of individual motives for saving and that of perceived liquidity … constraints in 15 Euro Area countries. The empirical analysis is based on the Household Finance and Consumption Survey, a new … harmonized data set collecting detailed information on wealth holdings, consumption and income at the household level. Since the …

document substantial heterogeneity across these dimensions. The median household in the euro area has a positive interest rate …

Using the Household Finance and Consumption Survey (HFCS), a large micro-level dataset on households’ wealth in fifteen … participation as well as levels of asset holdings and investigate the systematic relationships between household characteristics and …