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countries. We estimate the MPC based on a cross-country harmonized household level dataset which combines surveys on wealth …
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Prospective economic developments depend on the behavior of consumer spending. A key question is whether private expenditures recover once social distancing restrictions are lifted or whether the COVID-19 crisis has a sustained impact on consumer confidence, preferences, and, hence, spending....
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cars. Moreover, we show that such beliefs also influence household expectations about own income prospects, future access … Ricardian effects in household behaviour. We find that perceptions affect spending also among households that did not receive …
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panel component on the Survey of Household Income and Wealth. We find that households that received the tax rebate increased … mechanism behind our results we then simulate an overlapping generations model of household consumption: the marginal propensity …
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differences in the prices paid for the same product and differences in the household-specific variety choice within a category … household behaviour, a significant and time-varying inflation difference between income groups emerges. Substitution is strongly … behaviour-driven and largely detached from the relative price. The dispersion of the household-level elasticity of substitution …
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We test the interest rate sensitivity of subprime credit card borrowers using a unique panel data set from a UK credit card company. What is novel about our contribution is that we were given details of a randomized interest rate experiment conducted by the lender between October 2006 and...
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Consumers' inflation expectations play a key role in the monetary transmission mechanism. As such, it is crucial for monetary policymakers to understand what they are and how they are formed. In this paper we introduce the (un)certainty channel as means to shed light on some of the more puzzling...
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Payments are a key focus of central banks, as - together with the safe, efficient operation of the payments market - wide access to cash is fundamentally important for a healthy economy. In this study, three main research areas were investigated: 1. socioeconomic characteristics that can be...
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Using detailed micro-data, this paper documents that households with lower income risk (and higher income levels) exhibit a higher Marginal Propensity to Consume (MPC) in response to transitory income shocks, all else being equal. This finding is particularly significant among unconstrained...
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