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Housing prices and household borrowing are expected to be tightly connected to each other. Better availability of …, housing prices may significantly influence household borrowing through various wealth effects. Employing time series … by households. It appears that there is no similar relationship between stock price movements and household borrowing …
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This paper examines the effect of reduced self-control on debt-taking in a laboratory experiment. We manipulate self-control using an ego depletion task and show that it is effective. Following the ego depletion task, participants can anonymously buy hot drinks on credit. We find no significant...
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lab experiment, participants can purchase goods by borrowing against their future income. We exogenously manipulate income … and borrowing behavior in a representative survey (GSOEP-IS). …
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's vulnerability to periods of heightened risk and uncertainty. This paper develops a framework to evaluate such vulnerabilities. It … and explore how they are affected by domestic and global risk. We apply this framework to ten OECD economies, showing the … Kingdom, show that a substantial degree of international risk sharing can occur through current accounts and international …
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Time pressure is a central aspect of economic decision making nowadays. It is therefore natural to ask how time pressure affects decisions, and how to detect individual heterogeneity in the ability to successfully cope with time pressure. In the context of risky decisions, we ask whether a...
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"In 1997 Chancellor Kohl proposed a major pension reform and pushed the law through Parliament explaining that the German PAYG system had become unsustainable. One limitation of the new law -- one that is crucial for our identification strategy -- is that it left the generous pension...
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