between productivity and bank credit in the context of different financial market set-ups, we introduce a model of overlapping … generations of entrepreneurs under complete and incomplete credit markets. Then, we exploit firm-level data for France, Germany … and Italy to explore the relation between bank credit and productivity following the main derivations of the model. We …

To what extent does the availability of credit depend on monetary policy? And, does this relationship vary with bank … monetary policy exerts larger effects on cooperative and savings banks with lower liquidity and less capital in Germany and … savings banks with smaller size in Italy. Third, heterogeneity across groups of banks belonging to the same category in any …

Based on the households' utility maximisation, a closed form approximation of the consumption function is derived and … the deep parameters of the consumption function are estimated using aggregate euro area data. The novel element in our … lot of information on future income changes, but that also lagged consumption, through habit formation, plays an important …

Most of the empirical literature on consumption behaviour over the last decades has focused on estimating Euler … policy relevant issues. Alternatively, many papers have proposed using the consumption function to forecast behaviour. This … paper follows in this tradition, by deriving an analytical consumption function in the presence of intertemporal non …

realizations is front loaded, a closed form aggregate consumption function with CRRA preferences is derived. To have a closed form … life-time wealth and then the optimal consumption path. The derived model captures precautionary saving, which is dependent ….S. consumption data. …

on consumption. Using modern panel data econometric techniques and quarterly data for the period 1990:1-2008:2, we show … countries; (iii) housing wealth effects have increased for Asian coutries in recent years; and (iv) consumption reacts stronger …

This paper estimates the wealth effects on consumption in the euro area as a whole. I show that: (i) financial wealth …; (iii) consumption growth exhibits strong persistence and responds sluggishly to shocks; and (iv) the immediate response of … consumption to wealth is substantially different from the longrun wealth effects. By disaggregating financial wealth into its …

In this paper we examine the link between wage inequality and consumption inequality using a life cycle model that … incorporates household consumption and family labour supply decisions. We derive analytical expressions based on approximations for … the dynamics of consumption, hours, and earnings of two earners in the presence of correlated wage shocks, non …

assets, except in the top of the wealth distribution. Consumption is less sensitive to the value of the main residence than …