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English couple households born in the 1940s. Here, 'optimal' wealth holdings are those that allow households to enjoy the same … calculate this level of wealth, and compare that with how much wealth households are observed to hold. We find that the majority … of households hold more wealth than our model suggests is optimal and that this would still be true even if housing …
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We estimate marginal propensities to consume from wealth shocks for Italian households. Large asset price shocks in … 2008 underpin an IV estimator. A euro fall in financial or risky financial wealth resulted in cuts in annual total (non … changes in housing wealth are 0.2 to 0.4 cents/euro. Counterfactuals indicate financial wealth effects were important …
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lifetime resources, on the current consumption and wealth accumulation of employees affected by the reform. In line with … and increases the wealth-income ratio by 0.32. The response is stronger for younger workers and for households where both …
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This paper aims to test the microfoundations of consumption models and quantify the macro implications of heterogeneity in consumption behavior. We propose a new empirical method to estimate the sensitivity of consumption to permanent and transitory income shocks for different groups of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011930206
We estimate marginal propensities to consume from wealth shocks for Italian households in the early part of the Great … Recession. Large asset price shocks in 2008 underpin an IV estimator. A euro fall in risky financial wealth resulted in cuts in … of total and nondurable spending to changes in housing wealth are 0.2 to 0.3 cents/euro. Point estimates of the effect of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011674495
lifetime resources, on the current consumption and wealth accumulation of employees affected by the reform. In line with … and increases the wealth-income ratio by 0.32. The response is stronger for younger workers and for households where both …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013009588
This paper explores the microfoundations of consumption models and quantifies the macro implications of consumption heterogeneity. We propose a new empirical method to estimate the response of consumption to permanent and transitory income shocks for different groups of households. We then apply...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012834176
This paper analyzes the determinants of the wealth decumulation behavior of the retired elderly in Japan using unique … bequest motives in explaining the lower than expected rates of wealth decumulation of the retired elderly. Taken together, our … expected wealth decumulation rate of the retired elderly, at least in the case of Japan, even though both precautionary saving …
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from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing, an optimal level of wealth is calculated for each household. This is … compared to the levels of wealth observed in the data. Our results show that, for those born in the 1940s, the vast majority of … households have wealth levels far greater than necessary to maintain their living standards into and through retirement. …
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estimate the present value of future income streams in calculating measures of comprehensive wealth and an annualized … equivalent. In addition to some significant differences in median annualized wealth between immigrants and natives, the authors … cohorts were at similar ages. With a decomposition analysis, the authors estimate how much of the immigrant-native wealth gap …
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