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Differences in euro-area household finances and their relevance for monetary-policy transmission
Hintermaier, Thomas; Koeniger, Winfried - 2018
This paper quantifies the extent of heterogeneity in consumption responses to changes in real interest rates and house prices in the four largest economies in the euro area: France, Germany, Italy, and Spain. We first calibrate a life-cycle incomplete-markets model with a liquid financial asset...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011863469
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Differences in euro-area household finances and their relevance for monetary-policy transmission
Hintermaier, Thomas; Koeniger, Winfried - 2019
This paper quantifies the extent of heterogeneity in consumption responses to changes in real interest rates and house prices in the four largest economies in the euro area: France, Germany, Italy, and Spain. We first calibrate a life-cycle incomplete-markets model with a financial asset and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012129430
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Differences in euro-area household finances and their relevance for monetary-policy transmission
Hintermaier, Thomas; Koeniger, Winfried - 2019
This paper quantifies the extent of heterogeneity in consumption responses to changes in real interest rates and house prices in the four largest economies in the euro area: France, Germany, Italy, and Spain. We first calibrate a life-cycle incomplete-markets model with a financial asset and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012133482
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Fed liftoff and subprime loan interest rates : evidence from the peer-to-peer lending market
Bertsch, Christoph; Hull, Isaiah; Zhang, Xin - 2016
On December 16th of 2015, the Fed initiated "liftoff," raising the federal funds rate range by 25 basis points and ending a 7-year regime of near-zero rates. We use a unique dataset of 640,000 loan-hour observations to measure the impact of liftoff on interest rates in the peer-to-peer lending...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011457389
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How do mortgage rate resets affect consumer spending and debt repayment? : evidence from Canadian consumers
Kartashova, Katya; Zhou, Xiaoqing - 2020 - Last updated: May 19, 2020
We study the causal effect of mortgage rate changes on consumer spending, debt repayment, and defaults during an … interest rates of short-term fixed-rate mortgages (the dominant product in Canada's mortgage market) have to be reset according … variation in the timing of mortgage rate resets. We find asymmetric responses of consumer durable spending, deleveraging, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012243318
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Consolidation and legacy of foreign currency household lending in central and eastern Europe : the case of Hungary
Kolozsi, Pál Péter; Lentner, Csaba - In: Contemporary economics 14 (2020) 3, pp. 366-378
During the first decade of the 21st century, household FX loans spread in numerous countries in Central and Eastern Europe, where they caused serious macroeconomic and social problems with the spillover of the global financial crisis. Disregarding countries that joined the euro area, Hungary was...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012301687
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Monetary policy transmission to consumer financial stress and durable consumption
Georgarakos, Dimitris; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos - 2019
We examine the effects of monetary policy on household self-assessed financial stress and durable consumption using panel data from eighteen annual waves of the British Household Panel Survey. For identification, we exploit random variation in household exposure to interest rates generated by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012024596
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Monetary policy transmission to consumer financial stress and durable consumption
Georgarakos, Dimitris; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos - 2019
We examine the effects of monetary policy on household self-assessed financial stress and durable consumption using panel data from eighteen annual waves of the British Household Panel Survey. For identification, we exploit random variation in household exposure to interest rates generated by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012019231
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Mortgage Debt, Hand-to-Mouth Households, and Monetary Policy Transmission
Agarwal, Sumit - 2020
-in-differences analysis shows that compared with homeowners without mortgage obligations, mortgagors increased their monthly credit card … spending by 7.2% after the 230bps mortgage rate reduction announced in September 2008. We find a significant spending response … after the mortgage rate reset. Subsequent to an interest-rate-increase episode, mortgagors symmetrically reduced their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012850684
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Monetary policy transmission to mortgages in a negative interest rate environment
Amzallag, Adrien; Calza, Alessandro; Georgarakos, Dimitris - 2019
behaviour of Italian mortgage lenders using a novel loan-level dataset. When policy rates turn negative, banks with higher …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011975610