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prices � on private consumption for a panel of sixteen emerging economies in Asia and Central and Eastern Europe. Using … household consumption positively in the long-run, with the elasticity of housing wealth being greater than that of stock market …
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As the current crisis has shown, housing markets give rise to significant macroeconomic shocks. This calls for their regular monitoring both from a monetary policy and financial stability point of view.
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This paper studies the role of wealth fluctuations for aggregate consumption in Switzerland. In the long-run, wealth is … found to have a significant effect on consumption. In the short-run, by contrast, the effects are less clear as consumption … 3 years. If these equilibrium deviations are due to rapid wealth growth, Swiss consumers expand their consumption …
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We study the role of asset revaluation in the monetary transmission mechanism. We build an analytical heterogeneous-agents model with two main ingredients: i) rare disasters; ii) heterogeneous beliefs. The model captures time-varying risk premia and precautionary savings in a setting that nests...
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Many propositions have been made to explain the increase in the German household saving rate since the year 2000 from an individual country perspective but most of them focus on partial aspects. This paper adds to the discussion by analysing whether factors common to other industrial countries...
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This paper develops and estimates an open economy dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) model of the Hong Kong economy. The model features short-run price rigidities generated by monopolistic competition and staggered reoptimisation. The model is enhanced with wealth effects due to stock...
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We explore the long and short run relationship between private consumption, disposable income and housing and financial … wealth approximated by price indices for a panel of industrialized countries. Consumption, income and wealth are cointegrated … explain aggregate consumption behaviour. The cointegrating vector is robust and in line with the life cycle permanent income …
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The substantial decline in private-sector saving rates observed in several OECD countries in the late 1990s coincided in several cases with a sharp increase in household financial net worth. This was seen by many observers as evidence that the strong rise in equity and residential property...
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Over much of the past 25 years, the cycles of house price and consumption growth have been closely synchronised. Three … thereby facilitating higher consumption. And third, that house prices and consumption have tended to be influenced by common … factors. This paper finds that the relationship between house prices and consumption is stronger for younger than older …
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predictions at the time by some analysts relying on life-cycle models of consumption, consumer spending in real terms continued to … macroeconomic wealth effects on consumption confront two puzzles: (i) econometric evidence of a stable cointegrating relationship … among consumption, income, and wealth is weak at best; and (ii) life-cycle models that rely on aggregate measures of wealth …
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