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Home price expectations and behavior : evidence from a randomized information experiment
Armona, Luis; Fuster, Andreas; Zafar, Basit - 2016
Home price expectations are believed to play an important role in housing dynamics, yet we have limited understanding …. These results are consistent with recent behavioral models of housing cycles. Finally, we present robust evidence of home … price expectations impacting (actual and intended) housing-related behaviors, both in the cross section and within-individual. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011547755
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Commitment to Debt Repayment : Evidence from a Natural Experiment
Vihriälä, Erkki - 2021
This paper documents extensive commitment to mandatory debt repayment. In a natural experiment in which households can apply for free mortgage-payment flexibility for one to twelve months, 43 percent of applicants choose a dominated option of short flexibility. I argue that short flexibility...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013239314
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Do positional goods inhibit saving? Evidence from a life-cycle experiment
Feltovich, Nick; Ejebu, Ourega-Zoé - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 107 (2014) PB, pp. 440-454
We investigate the effect of positional goods (goods for which one's consumption relative to others’ matters) on saving, based on results from a life-cycle consumption/saving experiment. In a Group treatment, we allow inter-personal comparisons by assigning subjects to groups and displaying...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011116860
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Do tax cuts increase consumption? : an experimental test of Ricardian Equivalence
Meissner, Thomas; Rostam-Afschar, Davud - 2014
This paper tests whether the Ricardian Equivalence proposition holds in a life cycle consumption laboratory experiment. This proposition is a fundamental assumption underlying numerous studies on intertemporal choice and has important implications for tax policy. Using nonparametric and panel...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010384031
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Do tax cuts Increase consumption? : an experimental test of Ricardian Equivalence
Meissner, Thomas; Rostam-Afschar, Davud - 2014
This paper tests whether the Ricardian Equivalence proposition holds in a life cycle consumption laboratory experiment. This proposition is a fundamental assumption underlying numerous studies on intertemporal choice and has important implications for tax policy. Using nonparametric and panel...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010418875
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Do Tax Cuts Increase Consumption? An Experimental Test of Ricardian Equivalence
Meissner, Thomas - 2014
This paper tests whether the Ricardian Equivalence proposition holds in a life cycle consumption laboratory experiment. This proposition is a fundamental assumption underlying numerous studies on intertemporal choice and has important implications for tax policy. Using nonparametric and panel...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013050106
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A behavioral study of Roth versus traditional retirement savings accounts
Bohr, Clement E.; Holt, Charles A.; Schubert, Alexandra V. - 2023
Motivated by a popular perception that Roth accounts are welfare-improving for most people, this paper compares the effects of mandated Traditional (tax-deferred) or Roth (taxprepaid) retirement policies in a controlled laboratory setting. Selection effects, which complicate analyses of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014438824
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Do tax cuts increase consumption? : an experimental test of Ricardian Equivalence ; conference paper
Meissner, Thomas; Rostam-Afschar, Davud - 2014
This paper tests whether the Ricardian Equivalence proposition holds in a life cycle consumption laboratory experiment. This proposition is a fundamental assumption underlying numerous studies on intertemporal choice and has important implications for tax policy. Using nonparametric and panel...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010483254
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Long-Term Impacts of Individual Development Accounts on Homeownership Among Baseline Renters : Follow-Up Evidence from a Randomized Experiment
Grinstein-Weiss, Michal - 2013
Accounts that offered low-income households 2:1 matching funds for housing down payments. Prior work shows that, among …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013087759
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Affecting Public Support for Economic Policies : Evidence from a Survey Experiment About Rent Control in Germany
Dolls, Mathias; Schüle, Paul; Windsteiger, Lisa - 2023
We conduct a survey experiment among 18,000 respondents in Germany to examine the determinants of support for rent control policies. Highlighting undesirable price and supply effects lowers respondents’ agreement with rent control, while pointing out that it can prevent displacement of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014354010