wealth are closely linked to household characteristics, including income and demographic factors. Finally, underlying … structural changes in household characteristics point to potentially lower aggregate MPCs from wealth going forward …This paper analyzes the existence of 'wealth effects' derived from net equity (in the form of housing, financial assets …

This paper examines the role increasing personal wealth and home equity withdrawal (HEW) have had in the decline in the … United Kingdom. Mortgage market liberalization and innovation should reduce household cash flow and collateral constraints … while making housing wealth more liquid as HEW becomes easier over time. Regression analysis indicates the expected negative …

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 …

We evaluate and partially challenge the 'household leverage' view of the Great Recession. In the data, employment and … consumption declined more in states where household debt declined more. We study a model where liquidity constraints amplify the … aggregate data. Changes in household credit limits explain 40 percent of the differential rise and fall of employment across …

We analyze how regulatory constraints on household leverage-in the form of loan-to-income and loan-to-value limits …

We attempt to disentangle income and wealth effects on consumption by disaggregating both the different types of income … and wealth. We estimate a consumption function for a panel of quarterly data for 14 advanced economies spanning 1998 to … different components of income and wealth. While fiscal policy had direct effects on consumption, the analysis suggests that …

This paper discusses the evolution of the household debt in Australia and finds that while higher-income and higher-wealth … depending on the level of household debt. The results corroborate other work that households' response to monetary policy shocks …

High household wealth is often cited as a key strength of the Italian economy. Both in absolute terms and relative to … income, the Italian household sector is wealthier than most euro area peers. A sizable fraction of this wealth is held by the … rich and upper middle classes. This paper documents the changes in the Italian household sector's financial wealth over the …

Household savings rates in the United States have recently crept up from all-time lows. Some have suggested that a …, our model predicts that such primary savings will increase, but only temporarily and modestly, as household assets …

as a mechanism for smoothing household consumption following negative aggregate shocks. Our results suggest that mortgage …