We study whether the level of household indebtedness is related to the interest rate elasticity of private consumption … even as the household sector's debt-to-income ratio has almost doubled in the past 20 years. Estimates based on the … household-level Finnish Wealth Survey suggest that the share of liquidity-constrained households has declined over the same time …

We study the role of household saving behaviour, of individual motives for saving and that of perceived liquidity … constraints in 15 Euro Area countries. The empirical analysis is based on the Household Finance and Consumption Survey, a new … harmonized data set collecting detailed information on wealth holdings, consumption and income at the household level. Since the …