dynamics. When the model is modified in a way that permits it to match empirical measures of wealth inequality in the U.S., we … how the shock is distributed across categories of households (e.g., low-wealth versus high-wealth households) …

Preferences over wealth can explain why households do not spend more when real interest rates fall, because they save … more than optimal under a standard model. However, little is known about preferences over wealth empirically. We run an … wealth, consistent with wealth entering the utility function directly. …

This paper examines the impact of changes in household wealth on homeowners' consumption behavior using recent panel … household wealth to be roughly 1.0% for housing and 1.8% for financial wealth. Furthermore, we also find that homeowners …' consumption responses are asymmetric; that is, the housing and financial wealth effects are substantially larger for households …

This paper studies the heterogeneity of the marginal propensity to consume out of wealth (MPC) both across and within … countries. We estimate the MPC based on a cross-country harmonized household level dataset which combines surveys on wealth … are very similar to those obtained on aggregate data and show substantial heterogeneity across countries. The wealth …

asymmetry are usually considered as mutually exclusive. Using a single data set for US personal consumption, income and wealth … wealth declines can have considerable negative consumption effects in the short run, households have apparently been able, in … the longer run, to substantially increase consumption expenditure following income and wealth increases, but to keep the …