INNOVATION AND LIBERALIZATION ON HOME EQUITY WITHDRAWAL ( HEW) AND SAVING -- IV. TRENDS IN HEWAND HOUSEHOLD SAVING ACROSS … COUNTRIES -- V. HOW DOES HEW AFFECT HOUSEHOLD SAVING? -- VI. ECONOMETRIC ANALYSIS -- VII. RECENT EXPERIENCE OF HEW IN AUSTRALIA …

This paper studies the effects of household income on labor participation and school enrollment of children aged 10 to … 14 in Brazil using a social security reform as a source of exogenous variation in household income. Estimates imply that … the gap between actual and full school enrollment was reduced by 20 percent for girls living in the same household as an …

We leverage survey data from emerging and developing Asia to highlight different aspects of household vulnerability to …

This paper investigates how consumer price inflation is determined in Mali for 1979-2006 along three macroeconomic …

The standard measure of core or underlying inflation is the inflation rate excluding food and energy prices. This paper … constructs an alternative measure, the weighted median inflation rate, for 38 advanced and emerging economies using subclass …, and more closely related to headline inflation over the next year. The weighted median also has a drawback: in most …

challenges for policymakers: (i) to prevent capital flows from exacerbating overheating pressures and consequent inflation, and …," which calls for a rather aggressive monetary policy reaction to inflation, introducing macroprudential measures is found to …

We examine whether changes in the distribution of household inflation expectations contain information on future … distribution of household expectations does indeed help predict one-year-ahead CPI inflation. Variance and skewness of household … inflation. We first discuss recent shifts in micro data from the US, UK, Germany, and Canada. We then zoom in on the US to …

sub-Saharan African countries on the relative importance of fiscal and monetary determinants of inflation. Based on the … dynamic response of inflation to different shocks, including nominal public debt, results show that a number of SSA countries …

money in forecasting euro-area inflation. We compare the predictive performance within and among various classes of … contains relevant information for inflation in some model classes. Money-based New Keynesian DSGE models and VARs incorporating …