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literature, including loss aversion and liquidity constraints. In the existing literature, these two types of consumption … for the period 1953q1-2007q3, we show that evidence of either loss aversion or liquidity constraints can indeed be …
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We study whether households can distinguish persistent from transitory income shocks, and the implications for consumption-saving behavior. We construct a novel consumption-saving model where the household must infer the persistent component of its income process from actual income realizations...
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This paper tests how subjects behave in an intertemporal consumption/saving experiment when borrowing is allowed and whether subjects treat debt differently than savings. Two treatments create environments where either saving or borrowing is required for optimal consumption. Since both...
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This paper tests how subjects behave in an intertemporal consumption/saving experiment when borrowing is allowed and whether subjects treat debt differently than savings. Two treatments create environments where either saving or borrowing is required for optimal consumption. Since both...
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uncertainty about future income triggers saving because of loss aversion. We extend their theoretical analysis to also consider … the internal margin, i.e., the strength, of loss aversion, and empirically study the relation between income risk …, experimentally elicited loss aversion and precautionary savings. We do so using a sample of 640 individuals from the low …
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uncertainty about future income triggers saving because of loss aversion. We extend their theoretical analysis to also consider … the internal margin, i.e., the strength, of loss aversion, and empirically study the relation between income risk …, experimentally elicited loss aversion and precautionary savings. We do so using a sample of 640 individuals from the low …
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triggers an increase in saving because of loss aversion. Guided by the theoretical model of Koszegi and Rabin (2009), we first … extend their theoretical analysis to also consider the internal margin, i.e., the strength, of loss aversion, and then … empirically study the relation between income risk, experimentally elicited loss aversion, and precautionary savings. We do so …
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Following the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, household consumption fell dramatically and the propensity to save rose to unprecedented levels. In this paper we investigate the drivers of households' behaviour in Italy from a macro and microeconomic perspective. At the aggregate level, we find...
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