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We use a new panel dataset of credit card accounts to analyze how consumer responded to the 2001 Federal income tax rebates. We estimate the monthly response of credit card payments, spending, and debt, exploiting the unique, randomized timing of the rebate disbursement. We find that, on...
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We use a new panel dataset of credit card accounts to analyze how consumer responded to the 2001 Federal income tax rebates. We estimate the monthly response of credit card payments, spending, and debt, exploiting the unique, randomized timing of the rebate disbursement. We find that, on...
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to account for anticipation effects on consumption. We investigate this using high-frequency spending and balance sheet … with a standard buffer-stock consumption model, and implies that it is less effective to target stimulus to low liquidity …
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to account for anticipation effects on consumption. We investigate this using high-frequency spending and balance sheet … with a standard buffer-stock consumption model, and implies that it is less effective to target stimulus to low liquidity …
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We exploit a quasi-experiment that occurred in Stockholm in 2007 to provide new evidence on the magnitude of the housing wealth e.ect. Stockholm's smaller city airport was expected to close in 2011 but its operating contract was unexpectedly renewed after political negotiation behind closed...
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I show that conventional estimators based on the consumption Euler equation, extensively used in studies of … intertemporal consumption behavior, produce inconsistent estimates of the effect of children on consumption if potentially binding … children on consumption using the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) for the US and high quality Danish administrative …
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We exploit a quasi-experiment to provide new evidence on the magnitude of the housing wealth effect. We estimate an immediate shock of approximately -15% to house prices close to one of Stockholm's airports after its operations were unexpectedly continued as a result of political bargaining....
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ex-ante homeowners who rate (cash-out) refinance an existing loan to increase savings (consumption) are significantly …
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