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Households' and firms' subjective inflation expectations play a central role in macroeconomic and intertemporal microeconomic models. We discuss how subjective inflation expectations are measured, the patterns they display, their determinants, and how they shape households' and firms' economic...
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Integrating economic experiments into household surveys provides unique possibilities. We introduce the German Socio …
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We use micro data on young married households from the Japanese Panel Survey of Consumers in order to analyze the importance of borrowing constraints in Japan. We find (1) that 8 to 15 percent of young married Japanese households are borrowing-constrained, (2) that household assets and the...
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electricity consumption and influenced by the opinion of their close relatives. We also examined how consumption awareness is … over-analysis). Findings: Our study showed that the number of occupants does not affect consumption patterns as most … changes in savings are explained by either awareness or by a clear understanding of consumption patterns, and only 10.2% by …
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Integrating economic experiments into household surveys provides unique possibilities. We introduce the German Socio …
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. -- Borrowing constraints ; Liquidity constraints ; Consumption ; Life Cycle/Permanent Income Hypothesis ; Permanent Income …
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We use micro data on young married households from the Japanese Panel Survey of Consumers in order to analyze the importance of borrowing constraints in Japan. We find (1) that 8 to 15 percent of young married Japanese households are borrowing-constrained, (2) that household assets and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012733366
inflation expectations, their determinants, and how inflation expectations shape individuals’ consumption, savings, and …
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This paper examines the relationship between household balance sheets, consumer purchases and expectations. We find few robust empirical relationships between balance sheet measures and spending, but we do find that unemployment expectations are robustly correlated with spending
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