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consumption via managing inflation expectations based on the Euler equation. Unconventional fiscal policy uses trivial … announcements of future consumer-price increases to boost inflation expectations and consumption expenditure on impact. Instead …
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of large prizes (USD 8,300-150,000) is slightly below one half. While the consumption responses we find are high, their …
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I show that conventional estimators based on the consumption Euler equation, extensively used in studies of … intertemporal consumption behavior, produce inconsistent estimates of the effect of children on consumption if potentially binding … children on consumption using the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) for the US and high quality Danish administrative …
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This paper studies consumption and savings decisions of Danish households before and during the financial crisis as … consumption ratios immediately in response to the financial crisis, net savers have increased their consumption ratios to pre … housing wealth, suggesting that collateral effects may play a role. The MPC is asymmetric; households adjust their consumption …
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We use a new panel dataset of credit card accounts to analyze how consumer responded to the 2001 Federal income tax rebates. We estimate the monthly response of credit card payments, spending, and debt, exploiting the unique, randomized timing of the rebate disbursement. We find that, on...
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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 intentionally simple lab experiment on intertemporal...
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This paper examines how households adjusted their consumption behavior in response to COVID-19 infection risk during … the early phase of the pandemic. We use a monthly consumption survey specifically designed by the German Statistical … Office covering the second wave of COVID-19 infections from September to November 2020. Households reduced their consumption …
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estimates the impact of the Covid-19 crisis on consumption. The panel provides, each month, household-specific indicators of the … concern causes a significant reduction in nondurable consumption. The paper also explores the potential impact on consumption … of government interventions and of another wave of Covid-19, using household-level consumption adjustments to scenarios …
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-equilibrium increases in aggregate demand of 1.3 percent of consumption in the second quarter of 2008 and 0.6 percent in the third. Spending …
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consumption response of individuals whose same-building neighbors experienced personal bankruptcy. The unique bankruptcy rules in … Singapore suggest liquidity shocks drive personal bankruptcy decisions, leading to a substantial drop in consumption for the … bankrupt. Peers' monthly card consumption decreases by 3.4 percent over the one-year post-bankruptcy period. There exists no …
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