This report summarises the methodologies used in the fourth wave of the Eurosystem Household Finance and Consumption …

household assets and liabilities, income, and indicators of consumption and credit constraints. …This report summarises the stylized facts from the fourth wave of the Eurosystem Household Finance and Consumption …

During the 2010-2019 decade, consumption taxes have risen in the vast majority of the EU Member States as a result of … austerity measures, tax shifts as well as taxing transport and housing-related energy consumption. The redistributive impact of … including tax shift reforms. Our results indicate that the consumption tax systems in the EU have become more unequalizing in …

of consumption expenditures. We simulate a series of individual and aggregate shocks to household income and consumption … Household Spending to construct a representative cross-section of households who vary in their income, debt portfolios and mix … consumption expenditures across hard-to -distance goods (e.g., travel, restaurants) and easy-to -distance goods (e.g., groceries …

marginal and average spending shares. We apply our method to Chinese spending responses to disposable income changes induced by …

We study whether the level of household indebtedness is related to the interest rate elasticity of private consumption …. Looking at Finnish aggregate data, we find no robust evidence of increased 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 …

growth not only is the main driver of the widening wealth disparities observed in the United States of America over the past …