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Household saving behavior and credit constraints in the Euro area
Le Blanc, Julia; Porpiglia, Alessandro; Teppa, Federica; … - 2014
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...
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Leisure and housing consumption after retirement : new evidence on the life-cycle hypothesis
Schreiber, Sven; Beblo, Miriam - 2016
We revisit the alleged retirement consumption puzzle. According to the life-cycle theory, foreseeable income reductions … endowments after retirement, the theory does predict a fall of total market consumption expenditures. In order not to mistake …-cycle theory. For retirees we also find significant effects of the income reduction at retirement on housing. However, the effects …
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Spending effects of child-related fiscal transfers
Goldfayn-Frank, Olga; Lewis, Vivien; Wehrhöfer, Nils - 2022
As part of Germany’s fiscal response to the Covid-19 pandemic, parents received three payments totalling e450 per child. Randomization in the payment dates and daily scanner data allow us to identify the effects of these transfers on household spending. We find a significant but small spending...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013268076
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Intergenerational transfers : how do they shape the German wealth distribution?
Werder, Marten von - 2018
. This study adds to the discussion by providing causal estimates for the effect of transfer receipt on the savings behavior … of households. The model allows for dynamic adjustment and variations in the savings behavior over the wealth … transfer volume, the transfer incidence over the wealth distribution and the effect of the savings behavior. The results are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011915902
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Optimal unemployment insurance and international risk sharing
Moyen, Stéphane; Stähler, Nikolai; Winkler, Fabian - 2016
We discuss how cross-country unemployment insurance can be used to improve international risk sharing. We use a two-country business cycle model with incomplete financial markets and frictional labor markets where the unemployment insurance scheme operates across both countries. Cross-country...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011532638
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Revisiting the progressive consumption tax : a business cycle perspective
Strehl, Wolfgang - 2019
This paper revisits the personal expenditure tax (PET), the most prominent version of a progressive consumption tax. The PET has a long intellectual tradition in economics, and the merits and demerits of this alternative to the personal income tax have been discussed at length. What has been...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012060899
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Do tax cuts increase consumption? : an experimental test of Ricardian Equivalence
Meissner, Thomas; Rostam-Afschar, Davud - 2014
This paper tests whether the Ricardian Equivalence proposition holds in a life cycle consumption laboratory experiment. This proposition is a fundamental assumption underlying numerous studies on intertemporal choice and has important implications for tax policy. Using nonparametric and panel...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010384031
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The interest rate exposure of euro area households
Tzamourani, Panagiota - 2019
We estimate the "unhedged interest rate exposure" (URE) of euro area households. The URE is a welfare metric that captures the extent to which households are exposed to changes in real interest rates, and reflects the direct gains and losses in interest income flows incurred by households after...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011963126
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Monetary policy, housing, and collateral constraints
Franz, Thorsten - 2019
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011963152
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Estimating a consumer demand system of energy, mobility and leisure : a microdata approach for Germany
Beznoska, Martin - 2014
This paper investigates empirically the consumer demand of environmentally relevant goods for Germany, as well as their relationship to the demand for leisure. Higher prices for energy goods like gas, electricity or fuel oil due to higher indirect taxation amongst others may have serious welfare...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010340294