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House-purchasing decisions and the possibility of existing homeowners to tap into their housing equity depend decisively on prevailing loan-to-value (LTV) ratios in mortgage markets with borrowing constrained households. Utilizing a smooth transition local projection (STLP) approach, I show that...
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This paper assesses the consequences of EU enlargement for East West migration. In the theoretical part, we identify several factors in addition to the reduction of moving costs by which EU membership influences migration. Specifically, EU accession affects income gaps. Moreover, if EU...
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dynamic panel data models. In particular, in our model the long-run relationship between effective exchange rates and domestic …
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We introduce a dynamic panel threshold model to shed new light on the impact of inflation on long-term economic growth …. The empirical analysis is based on a large panel-data set including 124 countries during the period from 1950 to 2004. For … developing countries. -- Inflation Thresholds ; Inflation and Growth ; Dynamic Panel Threshold Model …
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This paper studies how and why consumers respond to unexpected, transitory income shocks. In a randomized control trial, I elicit marginal propensities to consume (MPC) out of different hypothetical income shock scenarios, varying the payment mode, the shock size, and the source of income. The...
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In this paper, the relationship between age and household net worth isexamined. The empirical analysis is based on a time-series of four cross-sections of the Finnish household wealth survey. Two different schemesare employed to identify age, cohort and time effects. Time-of-birth isfound to be...
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Homeownership rates differ widely across European countries. We document that part of this variation is driven by differences in the fraction of adults co-residing with their parents. Comparing Germany and Italy, we show that in contrast to homeownership rates per household, homeownership rates...
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We discuss the impacts of the Russian invasion on Ukrainian science. Using newly collected data, we show that the war has already had significant effects on science in Ukraine: research papers produced by Ukrainian scientists declined by about 10%, approximately 5% of the most prolific...
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