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Household economic decisions under the shadow of terrorism
Christelis, Dimitris; Georgarakos, Dimitris - 2009
We investigate, using the 2002 US Health and Retirement Study, the factors influencing individuals' insecurity and expectations about terrorism, and study the effects these last have on households' portfolio choices and spending patterns. We find that females, the religiously devout, those...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010303743
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Mortgage indebtedness and household financial distress
Georgarakos, Dimitris; Lojschová, Adriana; … - 2010
towards mortgage indebtedness. We find that a given debt burden creates much higher distress in countries with fewer mortgage … holders relative to countries where a significant part of households uses mortgage debt. This effect is net of ppp … unobserved heterogeneity. We show that households evaluate their own debt burden partly in comparison with the debt position of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011605202
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Mortgage indebtedness and household financial distress
Georgarakos, Dimitris; Lojschova, Adriana; … - 2009
indebtedness. We find that a given debt burden creates much higher distress in Southern countries, France and Belgium, where fewer … households have a mortgage outstanding relative to countries where a sizeable part of the population uses mortgage debt, like the … access to liquidity. Household's reported distress is also affected by excess indebtedness relative to the debt load of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269704
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Mortgage indebtedness and household financial distress
Georgarakos, Dimitris; Lojschova, Adriana; … - 2010
towards mortgage indebtedness. We find that a given debt burden creates much higher distress in countries with fewer mortgage … holders relative to countries where a significant part of households uses mortgage debt. This effect is net of ppp … unobserved heterogeneity. We show that households evaluate their own debt burden partly in comparison with the debt position of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009640403
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ECB Consumer Expectations Survey: An overview and first evaluation
Bańkowska, Katarzyna; Borlescu, Ana Maria; … - 2021
The Consumer Expectations Survey (CES) is an important new tool for analysing euro area household economic behaviour and expectations. This new survey covers a range of important topical areas including consumption and income, inflation and gross domestic product (GDP) growth, the labour market,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013331894
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Household economic decisions under the shadow of terrorism
Christelis, Dimitris; Georgarakos, Dimitris - 2009
We investigate, using the 2002 US Health and Retirement Study, the factors influencing individuals' insecurity and expectations about terrorism, and study the effects these last have on households' portfolio choices and spending patterns. We find that females, the religiously devout, those...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003864066
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Mortgage indebtedness and household financial distress
Georgarakos, Dimitris; Lojschova, Adriana; … - 2010
towards mortgage indebtedness. We find that a given debt burden creates much higher distress in countries with fewer mortgage … holders relative to countries where a significant part of households uses mortgage debt. This effect is net of ppp … unobserved heterogeneity. We show that households evaluate their own debt burden partly in comparison with the debt position of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003971055
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Mortgage indebtedness and household financial distress
Georgarakos, Dimitris; Lojschova, Adriana; … - 2009
indebtedness. We find that a given debt burden creates much higher distress in Southern countries, France and Belgium, where fewer … households have a mortgage outstanding relative to countries where a sizeable part of the population uses mortgage debt, like the … access to liquidity. Household's reported distress is also affected by excess indebtedness relative to the debt load of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003926442
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Asymmetric Consumption Effects of Transitory Income Shocks
Christelis, Dimitris - 2017
We use the responses of a representative sample of Dutch households to survey questions that ask how much they would consume of an unexpected, transitory, and positive income change, and by how much they would reduce their consumption in response to an unexpected, transitory, and negative income...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012963369
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Consumption Uncertainty and Precautionary Saving
Christelis, Dimitris - 2016
Using survey data from a representative sample of Dutch households, we estimate the strength of the precautionary saving motive by eliciting subjective expectations on future consumption. We find that expected consumption risk is higher for the young and the self-employed, and is correlated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013000340