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I characterize how house price shocks affect consumption inequality using a life-cycle model of housing and non-housing …
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We exploit a quasi-experiment to provide new evidence on the magnitude of the housing wealth effect. We estimate an … unexpectedly continued as a result of political bargaining. This source of price variation is ideal to identify housing wealth …
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housing wealth e.ect. Stockholm's smaller city airport was expected to close in 2011 but its operating contract was …
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and saving for young and old home-owners, both through a direct wealth eff ect and through housing equity serving as …
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Much of the literature on the effect of housing wealth on consumption has been embedded in a simple life-cycle model in … which housing price changes work as a "wealth effect". In such models, windfall gains in housing always lead to positive … changes in consumption. However, this might be a fallacy of composition. Such models ignore that changes in housing wealth …
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Much of the literature on the effect of housing wealth on consumption has been embedded in a simple life-cycle model in … which housing price changes work as a "wealth effect". In such models, windfall gains in housing always lead to positive … changes in consumption. However, this might constitute a fallacy of composition. Such models ignore that changes in housing …
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Contrary to the implications of economic theory, consumption inequality in the US did not react to the increases in income inequality during the last three decades. This paper investigates if a change in the type of income inequality - from permanent to transitory - or a change in the ability to...
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We document a decline in the frequency of shopping trips in the U.S. since 1980 and consider its implications for the measurement of consumption inequality. A decline in shopping frequency as households stock up on storable goods (i.e. inventory behavior) will lead to a rise in expenditure...
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losses in housing and in their financial portfolios, and that a non-trivial fraction of respondents have lost their job. As a … to consume with respect to housing and financial wealth are 1 and 3.3 percentage points, respectively. In addition, those …
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