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, the estimated elasticity is consistent, theoretically and quantitatively, with a simple calibrated model with wealth …
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Keynesian (HANK) model. The model yields empirically realistic distributions of household wealth and marginal propensities to …
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The wealthy hand-to-mouth are households who hold little or no liquid wealth (cash, checking, and savings accounts …
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In a model with housing collateral, a decrease in house prices reduces the collateral value of housing, increases household exposure to idiosyncratic risk, and increases the conditional market price of risk. This collateral mechanism can quantitatively replicate the conditional and the...
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Both textbook economics and common sense teach us that the value of household wealth should be related to consumer … suggest. An important first step in understanding the consumption-wealth linkage is determining how closely the two variables … relative importance of permanent and transitory innovations in the variation of consumer spending and wealth and find that …
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model parameterized to match the distribution of income, wealth, and marginal propensities to consume. First, we show that …
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Using an analytical general equilibrium model, we find closed form solutions for the effect of energy policy on factor prices and output prices. We calibrate the model to the US economy, and we consider a tax on carbon. By looking at expenditure and income patterns across household groups, we...
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countries not exposed to the VAT shock. Income, wealth effects, or intratemporal substitution cannot explain these results …
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research has to ensure income, wealth effects, or intratemporal substitution channels cannot explain these results and ideally …
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The permanent income hypothesis is tested on a four-quarter panel of about two thousand Japanese households for ten commodity groups. Consumption is a distributed lag function of expenditures, and the utility function is additively separable in time. Durability is defined as the persistence of...
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