We have investigated the influence of fiscal instruments, notably taxes on income and government spending, on household … consumption in two different samples and two measures of household debt to provide a comprehensive analysis of the topic. We used … government spending or reduced taxes, in the presence of high indebtedness, actually discourage household consumption compared to …

We study whether the level of household indebtedness is related to the 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 … household-level Finnish Wealth Survey suggest that the share of liquidity-constrained households has declined over the same time …