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Housing property is the most important position in a household's wealth portfolio. Even though there is strong evidence … paper examines if there is a wealth effect of house prices on savings using household-level longitudinal data from the … interpret this as evidence of a housing wealth effect. …
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The well-documented positive correlation between income risk and wealth was interpreted as evidence for high amounts of … precautionary wealth in various studies. However, the large estimates emerged from pooling non-entrepreneurs and entrepreneurs … private wealth balance sheets. Entrepreneurs, who face high income risk, hold more wealth than employees, but it is shown that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271125
This paper empirically investigates the effects of changes in the interest rate as well as transitory income uncertainty on households' consumption-savings decision. Applying a structural demand model to German survey data, we estimate the uncompensated interest rate elasticity for savings, in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010285757
The well-documented positive correlation between income risk and wealth was interpreted as evidence for high amounts of … precautionary wealth in various studies. However, the large estimates emerged from pooling non-entrepreneurs and entrepreneurs … private wealth balance sheets. Entrepreneurs, who face high income risk, hold more wealth than employees, but it is shown that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003874776
This paper empirically investigates the effects of changes in the interest rate as well as transitory income uncertainty on households' consumption-savings decision. Applying a structural demand model to German survey data, we estimate the uncompensated interest rate elasticity for savings, in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009261306
This paper uses household level data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) over the period 1991 to 2008 to analyse the driving factors of movements in the German household savings rate. Specifically, it analyses the impact of the precautionary savings motive and the impact of the 2002...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009696504
In this paper, we utilise data from a German population survey to test the validity of the Ricardian equivalence theorem (RET). In 2013, 2,000 representatively chosen people were asked whether they have altered their consumption and saving behaviour in response to the significant increase in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011433976
countries not exposed to the VAT shock. Income, wealth effects, or intratemporal substitution cannot explain these results. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011523731
countries not exposed to the VAT shock. Income, wealth effects, or intratemporal substitution cannot explain these results. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011540320
This paper empirically investigates the effects of changes in the interest rate as well as transitory income uncertainty on households' consumption-savings decision. Applying a structural demand model to German survey data, we estimate the uncompensated interest rate elasticity for savings, in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013138012