effect of wealth shocks on household consumption and individual expectations of the future. Many household experienced a … significant wealth shocks, but these shocks led to modest spending effects and small revisions to expectations regarding future … bequests. Expectations of bequests seem particularly tied to housing wealth. …

peak achieved during the boom. Homeownership rates, on the other hand, have continued to decline. We reconcile the two … homeownership rates between 2007 and 2014. We further demonstrate that institutional investors contributed to the improvement in the …

We estimate marginal propensities to consume from wealth shocks for Italian households in the early part of the Great … Recession. Large asset price shocks in 2008 underpin an IV estimator. A euro fall in risky financial wealth resulted in cuts in … total and non‐ durable spending to changes in housing wealth are 0.2 to 0.3 cents/euro. Point estimates of the effect of the …