This paper quantifies mechanisms through which heterogeneity in household finances affects the transmission of monetary …

unique panel dataset of household's credit and debit card spending, ATM withdrawals, financial investments into risky assets …. These results highlight how the heterogeneity in contract design and household wealth affects the monetary policy pass-through …

Closely following the seminal contribution of Jappelli and Pistaferri (2014) - based on Italian household survey data … across countries, household-characteristics, and major items of the households' balance sheets such as cash-on-hand, liquid …

portfolios, observed in the Household Finance and Consumption Survey (HFCS) for these countries. We then show that the … heterogeneity in household finances implies that responses of consumption to changes in the real interest rate and in house prices …

, observed in the Household Finance and Consumption Survey (HFCS) for these countries. We then show that the heterogeneity in … household finances implies that responses of consumption to changes in the real interest rate and in house prices differ … substantially across countries, and within countries by household characteristics such as age, housing tenure, and asset positions …

, observed in the Household Finance and Consumption Survey (HFCS) for these countries. We then show that the heterogeneity in … household finances implies that responses of consumption to changes in the real interest rate and in house prices differ … substantially across countries, and within countries by household characteristics such as age, housing tenure, and asset positions …