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 …

. Randomization in the payment dates and daily scanner data allow us to identify the effects of these transfers on household spending …

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

the household is located in a former West or East German federal state. Married couples and couples with children are … are significant differences regarding the marital status, the presence of at least one child in the household and whether … closer to the acceptance of the hypothesis than unmarried couples without children. …

Since 2002 the German government seeks to stimulate private retirement savings by means of special allowances and tax …. -- Household saving ; Saving incentives ; Retirement ; Riester scheme ; Coarsened exact matching …