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Wealth and Income in the Euro Area : Heterogeneity in Households' Behaviours?
Arrondel, Luc - 2014
This article aims at linking the household wealth and income distributions for 15 European countries using the … Household Finance and Consumption Survey. We study the role played by the household's location in the income distributions in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013053420
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Wealth Differences across Borders and the Effect of Real Estate Price Dynamics : Evidence from Two Household Surveys
Mathae, Thomas - 2014
age, income, education and other household characteristics …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013055306
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Household Saving and Fiscal Policy : Evidence for the Euro Area from a Thick Modelling Perspective
Checherita-Westphal, Cristina D.; Stechert, Marcel - 2021
We study the relationship between fiscal policy and household saving across the euro area countries for the period 1999 … panel setting. We find that fiscal expansions are associated with an increase in household saving rate in the euro area … and estimation uncertainty and no robust evidence for total private saving offset. Our results for the euro area are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013310202
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Determinants of Credit to Households in a Life-Cycle Model
Rubaszek, Michał - 2012
households. We show that the value of household credit to GDP ratio depends on the lending-deposit interest rate spread …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013111589
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Institutional Features of Wage Bargaining in 23 European Countries, the US and Japan
Du Caju, Philip - 2008
This paper presents information on wage bargaining institutions, collected using a standardised questionnaire. Our data provide information from 1995 and 2006, for four sectors of activity and the aggregate economy, considering 23 European countries, plus the US and Japan. Main findings include...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012768345
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Household's Portfolio Structure in Germany - Analysis of Financial Accounts Data 1959-2009
Ramb, Fred - 2011
Based on a Financial Almost Ideal Demand System (FAIDS), this paper investigates the wealth structure of German households. The long-run wealth elasticities and interest rate elasticities were calculated using a unique new quarterly financial accounts macro data set which covers the period from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013124189
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Financial Imbalances and Household Welfare : Empirical Evidence from the EU
Stracca, Livio - 2013
inflation. I confirm previous results in the literature that life satisfaction – a widely used measure of household welfare …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013083029
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How Much Does the Public Know about the ECB's Monetary Policy? Evidence from a Survey of Dutch Households
van der Cruijsen, Carin - 2011
Does the general public know what central banks do? Is this kind of knowledge relevant? Using a survey of Dutch households, we investigate these questions for the case of the European Central Bank (ECB). Our findings suggest that knowledge on the ECB's objectives is far from perfect. Both a weak...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013132595
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Micro and Macro Analysis on Household Income, Wealth and Saving in the Euro Area
Honkkila, Juha - 2013
in the measurement of household welfare all material components should be covered, i.e. consumption, income and wealth … to household wealth using both survey data and financial accounts. It builds a link between wealth survey and national … household groups …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013072608
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Pensions and Household Savings : Cross-Country Heterogeneity in Europe
d’Addio, Anna - 2020
We address the question of whether the heterogeneity in savings is partly due to differences in pension wealth across individuals and across countries, using a European harmonised wealth survey (HFCS) combined with estimates of pension wealth (OECD). First, we find significant displacement...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012842350