This paper investigates the potentially non-linear relation between households' indebtedness and their consumption … between 2010 and 2014 in Belgium, using panel data from the two waves of the Household Finance and Consumption Survey. Unlike … previous studies, we find a negative effect of households' indebtedness on their consumption, even in the absence of negative …

This paper studies the direct impact of households' debt on consumption over the business cycle. We use household … leverage, consumption, and asset prices. We find that debt levels exert a negative impact on consumption, which is particularly …' debt in past periods are not relevant in determining consumption; (ii) households adjust faster their consumption to debt …

transitory shocks? The implications for consumption and welfare depend crucially on the answer to this question. We use CEX … repeated cross-section data on consumption and income to decompose idiosyncratic changes in income into predictable lifecycle … evolution of consumption and income inequality well and delivers two main results. First, we find that permanent changes in …

-income households increased their demand for credit to finance higher consumption expenditures in order to "keep up" with higherincome …

-income households increased their demand for credit to finance higher consumption expenditures in order to keep up with higherincome …

This paper quantifies the extent of heterogeneity in consumption responses to changes in real interest rates and house …, observed in the Household Finance and Consumption Survey (HFCS) for these countries. We then show that the heterogeneity in … household finances implies that responses of consumption to changes in the real interest rate and in house prices differ …