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Exploring dynamics of household final consumption is an important concern for policy-makers. Turkey had witnessed … and therefore, other macroeconomic variables. In this paper, we examine the linkage between household final consumption …
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fluctuations in household wealth have driven major swings in economic activity. This paper considers so-called wealth effects - the … impact of changes in wealth on household consumption and the overall macroeconomy. There is an extensive existing literature …
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an accumulation of household debt and a downturn in house prices has a substantial adverse impact on consumption. …
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This paper examines whether relative income and income inequality within reference groups affect household consumption …. Using the explanations of consumption behavior based on Dusenberry's relative income hypothesis, we test if household … consumption levels in Turkey are affected by the household's relative position and inequality in the reference group between 2005 …
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This paper utilizes high-quality transaction data from the largest bank in Denmark to study what drives the demand for high-cost consumption loans. I investigate the extent to which adverse events drive loan demand, or if it is more likely to be explained by borrowers' personality traits. I find...
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This paper studies the direct impact of households' debt on consumption over the business cycle. We use household …
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By means of a laboratory experiment, we show that, contrary to standard consumer theory, financially equivalent balance sheet profiles may be perceived as non fungible in a controlled frictionless environment with no probabilistic attributes. A large majority of subjects indeed have a bias in...
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By means of a laboratory experiment, we show that, contrary to standard consumer theory, financially equivalent balance sheet profiles may be perceived as non fungible in a controlled frictionless environment with no probabilistic attributes. A large majority of subjects indeed have a bias in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012133168
How do households adjust to a large debt shock? This paper studies household responses to a revaluation of foreign … currency household debt during a large depreciation in Hungary. Relative to similar local currency debtors, foreign currency …
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We have investigated the influence of fiscal instruments, notably taxes on income and government spending, on household … consumption in two different samples and two measures of household debt to provide a comprehensive analysis of the topic. We used … government spending or reduced taxes, in the presence of high indebtedness, actually discourage household consumption compared to …
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