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inattention (or RI, Sims 2003, 2010) for the cross-sectional dispersion of consumption and wealth (relative to income) in general …
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goods and services to measures of real income and wealth, where the latter are deflated by a price index for total …
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In an influential paper, Mian, Rao, and Sufi (2013) exploit geographic variation in housing supply elasticities to measure the effect of changes in the housing share of net worth on total household expenditures during the Great Recession. Their widely-cited estimates are based on proprietary...
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capacity, wealth endowments, income risks, and preferences for risk and time. We show that our model can generate results that … are consistent with several novel facts regarding how differences in individuals’ wealth levels and beliefs about their … limited attention is significantly larger for households with lower wealth; allowing these households to flexibly allocate …
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analyses that have been performed to date for the USA and France. These analyses have verified the Mankiw's puzzle theory about … to stagnate. We disproved Mankiw's puzzle theory using a data sample from the Czech Republic and Germany. This conclusion …
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according to the portfolio choice theory. Fewer still have tried to consider simultaneously the two-dimensional aspect of …
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We show that in a New Keynesian model with household heterogeneity, fiscal policy can be a perfect substitute for monetary policy: three simple conditions for consumption taxes, labor taxes, and the government debt level are sufficient to induce the same consumption and labor supply of each...
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In HANK, we show that fiscal policy is an appropriate macroeconomic stabilization tool at the ZLB. Fiscal policy achieves the same macroeconomic aggregates and the same welfare as hypothetically unconstrained monetary policy by replicating its transmission mechanism. Consumption taxes and labor...
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We use the Italian Survey of Household Income and Wealth, a rather unique dataset with a long time dimension of panel … information on consumption, income and wealth, to structurally estimate a buffer-stock saving model. We exploit the information … contained in the joint dynamics of income, consumption and wealth to quantify the degree of insurance against income risk. The …
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