Showing 1 - 10 of 245
This paper examines the role of culture in households' saving decisions. Exploiting the historical language borders within Switzerland, I isolate the effect of households' exposure to certain language groups from economic, institutional, demographic and geographic factors for a homogeneous and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011656184
at the empirical drivers behind these trends. It uses a reduced-form model that relates private savings to a set of … savings in these economies. Looking ahead, the prospective population aging is likely to lead to a considerable fall in saving …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003599655
It has been widely documented that households experience different inflation rates which are generally concealed in … individual households and try to explain the causes for the observed inflation differences. Considering not only consumption … among household inflation rates. These are also quite variable over time, resulting from varying consumption baskets and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014484420
By placing store-level price data into bivariate Structural VAR models of inflation and relative price asymmetry, this … forecast error variance in inflation at the 12-month horizon. While the contemporaneous correlation between inflation and … relative price asymmetry is positive, idiosyncratic shocks lead to a substantial build-up in inflation only after two to five …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009636524
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001967631
In this paper, we discuss the consequences of taking into account the variations of the natural real interest rate (r t *) in simple monetary policy rules. We also provide one possible model-based analysis of the level of r t * that has prevailed in the euro area since the early 1970s, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009635981
This paper proposes a general equilibrium model with heterogeneous households and a financial market where each financial instrument provides liquidity services in addition to enabling a transfer of purchasing power over time. Importantly, liquidity services may be asymmetric according to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003208633
potential and stationary inflation. This paper applies the method recently suggested by Laubach and Williams to jointly estimate … area was on average stimulative during the 1960s and the 1970s, while it contributed to dampen the output gap and inflation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003208975
equilibrium interest rate (r*), trend inflation (π*), and term premia. Similar to Bauer and Rudebusch (2020, AER), π* and r …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012705391
Nominal and real interest rates in advanced economies have been decreasing since the mid-1980s and reached historical low levels in the aftermath of the global financial crisis. Understanding why interest rates have fallen is essential for both monetary policy and financial stability. This paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011697366