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Using a dedicated set of questions in the 2014 Luxembourg Household Finance and Consumption Survey (LU-HFCS), we show … own labour contributions vary by household characteristics (age, gender, profession) and by type of dwelling (house …
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We investigate the role of settlement in a dynamic model of a payment system where the ability of participants to perform certain welfare-improving transactions is subject to random and unobservable shocks. In the absence of settlement, the full information first-best allocation cannot be...
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The purpose of this paper is to estimate the impact of capitalising durable goods on the Euro area household saving … National Accounts 1993. Secondly, the issue is related to the definition of household saving ratios. For instance, the U ….S. Federal Reserve Board publishes three household saving measures. The main difference between these saving ratios is that one …
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services is related to household characteristics, bank ownership structure and the development of the financial infrastructure …. At the household level we find that the holding of a bank account or bank card increases with income, wealth and …
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Using a new nationally representative survey of financial capability and experience in the UK and Ireland, I investigate the key factors that cause individuals to experience financial distress. In this context, a key area that I focus on is whether individuals' behavioural traits, such as their...
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Does the general public know what central banks do? Is this kind of knowledge relevant? Using a survey of Dutch households, we investigate these questions for the case of the European Central Bank (ECB). Our findings suggest that knowledge on the ECB's objectives is far from perfect. Both a weak...
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In this paper we analyse household holdings of the broad monetary aggregate M3 in the euro area from 1991 until 2009 …
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equity. Using US household data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation for the period 1996-2006, we find that … applies. This home equity bias is also more pronounced if the household head is in poor health, increasing the chance of … tenures, and younger household heads, which taken together reflect households that face more financial uncertainty …
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; portfolio structure ; household …
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