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We use a new panel dataset of credit card accounts to analyze how consumer responded to the 2001 Federal income tax rebates. We estimate the monthly response of credit card payments, spending, and debt, exploiting the unique, randomized timing of the rebate disbursement. We find that, on...
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Homeownership rates differ widely across European countries. We document that part of this variation is driven by … homeownership rates per household, homeownership rates per individual are very similar during the first part of the life cycle. To … consumption-saving and housing tenure decisions. We embed an explicit intergenerational link between children and parents to …
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Homeownership rates differ widely across European countries. We document that part of this variation is driven by … homeownership rates per household, homeownership rates per individual are very similar during the first part of the life cycle. To … consumption-saving and housing tenure decisions. We embed an explicit intergenerational link between children and parents to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014315150
Homeownership rates differ widely across European countries. We document that part of this variation is driven by … homeownership rates per household, homeownership rates per individual are very similar during the first part of the life cycle. To … consumption-saving and housing tenure decisions. We embed an explicit intergenerational link between children and parents to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014317712
Homeownership rates differ widely across European countries. We document that part of this variation is driven by … homeownership rates per household, homeownership rates per individual are very similar during the first part of the life cycle. To … consumption-saving and housing tenure decisions. We embed an explicit intergenerational link between children and parents to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014339552
This paper quantitatively investigates the optimal capital income taxation in the general equilibrium overlapping generations model, which incorporates characteristics of housing and the U.S. preferential tax treatment for owner-occupied housing. Housing tax policy is found to have a substantial...
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to account for anticipation effects on consumption. We investigate this using high-frequency spending and balance sheet … with a standard buffer-stock consumption model, and implies that it is less effective to target stimulus to low liquidity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014278256
to account for anticipation effects on consumption. We investigate this using high-frequency spending and balance sheet … with a standard buffer-stock consumption model, and implies that it is less effective to target stimulus to low liquidity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013361501
The homeownership rate in Germany is one of the lowest among advanced economies. To better understand this fact, we … analyze the role of three specific policies which discourage homeownership in Germany: an extensive social housing sector with … payments by owner-occupiers. We build a lifecycle model with uninsurable income risk and endogenous homeownership in order to …
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policy on consumption and debt repayment behavior. The complex policy imposes two types of soft liquidity constraints for … theory of liquidity constraints and consumption (Carroll and Kimball 2005). Our results show that a well-designed credit card …
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