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This paper tests one specific monetary transmission mechanism through households: portfolio rebalancing. We use a unique panel dataset of household's credit and debit card spending, ATM withdrawals, financial investments into risky assets such as mutual funds and equities, as well as bank...
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To analyze the effectiveness of stabilization policies which includes effects on households future income it is central … households when the effect on household income is partly in the future. …
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We propose a new approach to analyze economic shocks. Our new procedure identifies economic shocks as exogenous shifts in a function; hence, we call them "functional shocks." We show how to identify such shocks and how to trace their effects in the economy via VARs using "VARs with functional...
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focused on unemployment stabilization helps "Main Street" by providing consumption insurance. It hurts "Wall Street" by … of monetary policy to consumption, but hardly to GDP. Central to this result is allowing for self-insurance and aggregate …
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focused on unemployment stabilization helps "Main Street" by providing consumption insurance. It hurts "Wall Street" by … of monetary policy to consumption, but hardly to GDP. Central to this result is allowing for self-insurance and aggregate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013210409
This paper studies the effects of quantitative easing on income and wealth of individual euro area households. The … which key variables affecting household income and wealth are included, such as the unemployment rate, wages, interest rates …-form simulation on micro data from the Household Finance and Consumption Survey, capturing the income composition, the portfolio …
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The intergenerational income elasticity is a crucial measure of income mobility. In this paper we develop a structural … model to examine the channels through which this elasticity operates. Using data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, we … human capital, independent of financial investments while the financial component examines the impact of income that is …
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distribution with the monetary shock affecting the median household relative to the 20th percentile by a larger amount than the … right tail. Our results suggest that the shock is transmitted through changes in net property and financial wealth that …
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, strengthening the drag on aggregate demand. Households' heterogeneous exposure to the shock induces an endogenous trade-off for …, and prevent workers from becoming more exposed to the shock through unemployment …
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behavior and the income sensitivity of consumption. Analyzing Danish data, we find that elevated credit spreads reduce …
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