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reduction in homeownership across generations. Lower-income households find it harder to buy housing, and as a result accumulate …
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- relative to older borrowers has played a major role in easing the debt repayment burden in the presence of large income shocks …. Notwithstanding historically low interest rates, we show that income shocks are the main factor contributing to mortgage repayment …
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This paper studies the effects of quantitative easing on income and wealth of individual euro area households. The … which key variables affecting household income and wealth are included, such as the unemployment rate, wages, interest rates …-form simulation on micro data from the Household Finance and Consumption Survey, capturing the income composition, the portfolio …
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, income and consumption. We use panel regressions and an instrumental variable approach. First, our panel-based MPC estimates …
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In this paper I develop a New Keynesian dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model which features three different types of representative agents (THRANK): the poor hand-to- mouth, the wealthy hand-to-mouth and the non-hand-to mouth households. Compared to a full-scale HANK model, this model is...
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This paper shows that individual beliefs on the effectiveness of formal and informal sources of risk sharing determine financial precautionary behavior. We present empirical evidence demonstrating that higher trust in public insurance systems reduces net liquid wealth while higher trust in...
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The financial accounts of the household sector within the system of national accounts report the aggregate asset holdings and liabilities of all households within a country. In principle, when household wealth surveys are explicitly designed to be representative of all households, aggregating...
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composition of their income and on the components of their wealth. We first review the existing evidence on how monetary policy … affects income and wealth inequality. We then illustrate quantitatively how various channels of transmission - net interest … rate exposure, intertemporal substitution and indirect income channels - affect individual euro area households. We find …
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We address the question of whether the heterogeneity in savings is partly due to differences in pension wealth across individuals and across countries, using a European harmonised wealth survey (HFCS) combined with estimates of pension wealth (OECD). First, we find significant displacement...
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