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House prices, second mortgages and household savings : an empirical investigation for the Netherlands, 1987 - 1994
Rouwendal, Jan; Alessie, Rob - 2002
Since the beginnings of the eighties house prices in the Netherlands haveincreased steadily and considerably. In this paper we study the effect of this developmenton the demand for second mortgages and on the savings of Dutch households. We use the dataof the Dutch socio-economic panel for the...
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Vulnerability in a stochastic dynamic model
Elbers, Chris; Gunning, Jan Willem - 2003 - Rev.
Most measures of vulnerability are a-theoretic and essentially static. In this paper we use a stochastic Ramsey model to find a household's optimal welfare and we measure vulnerability as the shortfall from the welfare attained if the household consumed permanently at the poverty line. The...
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US and European household debt and credit constraints
Crook, Jonathan N.; Hochgürtel, Stefan - 2007
consumption models, including a numerically solved precautionary savings model. We find that inter-country differences are …
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Reconciling consumption inequality with income inequality
Lepetyuk, Vadym; Stoltenberg, Christian - 2013
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The COVID-19 consumption game-changer : evidence from a large-scale multi-country survey
Hodbod, Alexander; Hommes, Cars H.; Huber, Stefanie J.; … - 2021 - Version: 2021-10-17
in consumption in five key sectors: tourism, hospitality, services, retail, and public transports. We identify a large …-term sectoral consumption shifts may occur. …
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SHE can't afford it and HE doesn't want it : the gender gap in the COVID-19 consumption response
Huber, Stefanie J. - 2022
This paper explores whether and why the pandemic differentially altered women and men's consumption behavior. After the … 2020 wave of lockdown restrictions were lifted, women reduced consumption more than men. Data on self-reported reasons for … financial constraints more frequently. Men adapted more to the limited consumption possibilities during the lockdown and …
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Evidence on informal insurance in rural Zimbabwe
Hoogeveen, Johannes - 2001
rely on buffer stocks to shield their consumption from incomeshocks. In this paper a test is developed that deals with this …
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Evidence on informal insurance in rural Zimbabwe
Hoogeveen, Johannes - 2000
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Homeownership and labour market behaviour : interpreting the evidence
Rouwendal, Jan; Nijkamp, Peter - 2008 - This version: November 3, 2008
causal relationship from homeownership to unemployment. The literature confirms a decreasing effect of homeownership on …, there are clear indications that there is also an effect of homeownership on the search for jobs on the local labour market …
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Price and income elasticities of residential water demand : why empirical estimates differ
Dalhuisen, Jasper M.; Florax, Raymond J. G. M.; Groot, … - 2001
This paper presents a meta-analysis of variations in price and income elasticities of residential water demand.Information on the determinants of consumer demand is of pivotal importance for the efficiency and efficacy ofpublic and private policy-making. It is also crucial for effective water...
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