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panel of U.S. tax data, including tens of millions of person-year observations, and measure retirement savings contributions … and withdrawals. We use these data to document several important changes in retirement savings patterns during the …, contributions to retirement savings vehicles did not meaningfully decline. Second, driven by the suspension of required minimum …
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panel of US tax data, including tens of millions of person-year observations, and measure retirement savings contributions … and withdrawals. We use these data to document several important changes in retirement savings patterns during the … pandemic relative to prior years, and we compare these results to changes in savings patterns during the Great Recession. We …
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The implementation of a lockdown to control the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic has led to a strong economic and political debate in several countries. This makes it crucial to shed light on the actual benefits of such kind of policy. To this purpose, we focus on the Swiss lockdown during the...
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In response to the two waves of Covid-19 in 2020, the Italian government implemented a general lockdown in March, but geographically targeted policies during fall. We exploit this natural experiment to compare the effects of the two policies in a difference-in-differences design, leveraging a...
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change the amount of their expenses. Most of the surveyed people increased their savings during the pandemic. Poles more …
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Congress passed The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act, also known as the CARES Act, which created the Paycheck … ensure that going forward, we can do better to meet the missed marks during the acute phase of the coronavirus pandemic. …
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the lens of an estimated DSGE model. We augment the canonical DSGE set-up with 'forced savings' (lockdowns, social … dominant role of 'lockdown shocks' ('forced savings', labour hoarding) in explaining the quarterly pattern of real GDP growth … impact of persistently higher (precautionary) savings. The initial inflation response has been modest compared to the …
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