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estimates the impact of the Covid-19 crisis on consumption. The panel provides, each month, household-specific indicators of the … concern causes a significant reduction in nondurable consumption. The paper also explores the potential impact on consumption … of government interventions and of another wave of Covid-19, using household-level consumption adjustments to scenarios …
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consumption and hypothetical debt decisions. Our findings suggest that real wealth mediates the sensitivity of consumption to …
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-44 year-old winning; (iii) losses were quite uniform across consumption quantiles because rigid rents served as a hedge for …
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The study quantifies stock market and housing market wealth effects on households' non-durable consumption using …
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governments use to affect mortgage-financed home-ownership. In the empirical part, real mortgage debt growth is analysed for 15 EU …
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I propose a life-cycle model where a finitely lived risk averse agent finances her housing investment choosing to provide a down payment. After signing the mortgage contract, the agent may strategically default and move into the rental market. Risk neutral lenders efficiently price mortgages...
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framework for analysing the household flow of funds jointly with consumption. The consumption function incorporates household … interest rates. In a general equilibrium setting, these all have to be endogenised and since households make consumption and …
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consumption, construction and the banking system. This paper examines links for Germany between household portfolios, income and … consumption in a six-equation system, for 1980-2012 data, for consumption, house prices, consumer credit, housing loans, liquid … find evidence of well specified consumption and house price functions and that Germany differs greatly from the Anglo …
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This paper shows that individual beliefs on the effectiveness of formal and informal sources of risk sharing determine financial precautionary behavior. We present empirical evidence demonstrating that higher trust in public insurance systems reduces net liquid wealth while higher trust in...
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We revisit the transmission mechanism of monetary policy for household consumption in a Heterogeneous Agent New … intertemporal substitution drives virtually all of the transmission from interest rates to consumption. …
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