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contrast, monetary policy has only negligible effects on wealth inequality. …This paper studies the effects of quantitative easing on income and wealth of individual euro area households. The … which key variables affecting household income and wealth are included, such as the unemployment rate, wages, interest rates …
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We analyse the effect of shocks to housing wealth and income before and after the Great Recession. We combine datasets … containing information on expenditure, income, wealth and debt in a synthetic panel to understand how household indebtedness … affects the response to income and wealth shocks.We find evidence for both a housing wealth effect and income shocks …
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Keynesian (HANK) model. The model yields empirically realistic distributions of household wealth and marginal propensities to …
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Keynesian (HANK) model. The model yields empirically realistic distributions of household wealth and marginal propensities to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011605944
affects income and wealth inequality. We then illustrate quantitatively how various channels of transmission - net interest … composition of their income and on the components of their wealth. We first review the existing evidence on how monetary policy …
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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 effects of mandatory pension wealth on non-pension financial wealth at the mean, and …
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We use cross-country microdata to analyse the risk taking of households in Europe and the US. Concerning the extensive as well as the intensive margin of risky assets, European households differ substantially from US households; but also inside Europe we document substantial differences....
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We use cross-country microdata to analyse the risk taking of households in Europe and the US. Concerning the extensive as well as the intensive margin of risky assets, European households differ substantially from US households; but also inside Europe we document substantial differences....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012871885
Households face earnings risk which is non-normal and varies by age and over the income distribution. We show that allowing for these rich features of earnings dynamics, in the context of a structurally estimated life-cycle portfolio choice model, helps to rationalize the limited participation...
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Households face earnings risk which is non-normal and varies by age and over the income distribution. We show that allowing for these rich features of earnings dynamics, in the context of a structurally estimated life-cycle portfolio choice model, helps to rationalize the limited participation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014348942