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Do discretionary spending cuts and tax increases hurt social well-being? To answer this question, we combine subjective well-being data covering over half a million of individuals across 13 European countries, with macroeconomic data on fiscal consolidations. We find that fiscal consolidations...
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For the world's 20 largest emitters, we use a simple trend/cycle decomposition to provide evidence of decoupling between greenhouse gas emissions and output in richer nations, particularly in European countries, but not yet in emerging markets. If consumption-based emissions-measures that...
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as a mechanism for smoothing household consumption following negative aggregate shocks. Our results suggest that mortgage …
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Historically high household debt in several economies is calling for a deleveraging, but according to some economists …, this paper finds evidence of a negative relationship between changes of household debt-to-income ratios and saving rates … suggest that the economic cost associated with household deleveraging may be overestimated and motivate a deleveraging via …
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forecasters, household and business surveys, and the market for Treasury inflation protected securities (TIPS) to estimate long …
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. Supply-side drivers, valuation, household debt, and financial conditions jointly play a key role in forecasting house price …-level data, we identify households vulnerable to potential housing shocks and assess the riskiness of household debt …
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deteriorating household balance sheets? This paper examines the question using household data from the United States. It compares … the responsiveness of household consumption to monetary policy shocks in the pre- and post-crisis periods, relating … changes in monetary transmission to changes in household indebtedness and liquidity. The results show that the responsiveness …
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merits of the regime-switching theory as an explanation for the apparent fluctuations in real interest rates in Australia …
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