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Funding self-employment : the role of consumer credit
Kneiding, Christoph; Kritikos, Alexander - 2011
This paper investigates whether self-employed households use consumer loans - in particular instalment loans and overdrafts - to finance business activities. Controlling for financial and non-financial household variables we show that self-employed households particularly use personal overdrafts...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009580355
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Funding self-employment : the role of consumer credit
Kneiding, Christoph; Kritikos, Alexander - 2011
This paper investigates whether self-employed households use consumer loans - in particular instalment loans and overdrafts - to finance business activities. Controlling for financial and non-financial household variables we show that self-employed households particularly use personal overdrafts...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009517869
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Funding Self-Employment : The Role of Consumer Credit
Kneiding, Christoph - 2011
This paper investigates whether self-employed households use consumer loans – in particular instalment loans and overdrafts – to finance business activities. Controlling for financial and non-financial household variables we show that self-employed households particularly use personal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013118523
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Funding Self-Employment : The Role of Consumer Credit
Kneiding, Christoph - 2012
This paper investigates whether self-employed households use consumer loans - in particular installment loans and overdrafts - to finance business activities. Controlling for financial and non-financial household variables we show that self-employed households particularly use personal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013112831
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Family Tax Splitting: A Microsimulation of its Potential Labour Supply and Intra-household Welfare Effects in Germany
Laisney, François; Beninger, Denis; Beblo, Miriam - 2003
This paper assesses the effects that an introduction of the French family splitting mechanism would have on German families' labour supply and intra-household consumption behaviour. We use simulated real world microdata created by means of a 'deterministic' collective labour supply model. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297284
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Welfare Analysis of Fiscal Reforms: Does the Representation of the Family Decision Process Matter? Evidence for Germany
Laisney, François; Beninger, Denis; Beblo, Miriam - 2003
This paper compares predictions obtained for the analysis of tax reforms with collective and unitary models of household labour supply and consumption behaviour. We simulate real world microdata by means of a collective approach, using a compound procedure of estimation and calibration based on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297331
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Fixed amount saving and the permanent income hypothesis
Vosen, Simeon - 2012
flexibly adjusting savings to income variations as assumed by the Permanent Income Hypothesis (PIH). Fixed amount saving … households would consume rather than save transitory income. A deeper examination of the SAVE-data suggests that the PIH could … still be compatible with fixed amount saving behaviour since (a) the transitory income component of fixed amount savers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009668279
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Economic development, novelty consumption, and body weight : evidence from the East German transition to capitalism
Dragone, Davide; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2015
This paper develops a conceptual framework that can explain why economic development goes along with increases in body weight and obesity rates. We first introduce the concept of novelty consumption, which refers to an increase in food availability due to trade or innovation. Then we study how...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010510027
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Welfare analysis of fiscal reforms : does the representation of the family decision process matter : evidence for Germany
Beninger, Denis; Laisney, François; Beblo, Miriam - 2003
This paper compares predictions obtained for the analysis of tax reforms with collective and unitary models of household labour supply and consumption behaviour. We simulate real world microdata by means of a collective approach, using a compound procedure of estimation and calibration based on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011448527
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Family tax splitting : a microsimulation of its potential labour supply and intra-household welfare effects in Germany
Beblo, Miriam; Beninger, Denis; Laisney, François - 2003
This paper assesses the effects that an introduction of the French family splitting mechanism would have on German families' labour supply and intra-household consumption behaviour. We use simulated real world microdata created by means of a "deterministic" collective labour supply model. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011448558