We study the role of household saving behaviour, of individual motives for saving and that of perceived liquidity … constraints in 15 Euro Area countries. The empirical analysis is based on the Household Finance and Consumption Survey, a new … harmonized data set collecting detailed information on wealth holdings, consumption and income at the household level. Since the …

In this paper, we analyze the saving motives of European households using micro-data from the Household Finance and …-quarter of total household wealth in Europe provides further corroboration for this finding. …

expectations. Extrapolative income expectations help explain state-dependent household debt cycles qualitatively and quantitatively …

household net worth coming from elevated household debt and the collapse in house prices play an underappreciated role. Using … highlight the increasing body of macroeconomic evidence on the link between household debt and business cycles. Our main … conclusion is that housing and household debt should play a larger role in models exploring the importance of household …

to consume (MPCs). Our main contribution is to document how MPCs vary with household characteristics and prize size, and …

This paper studies the direct impact of households' debt on consumption over the business cycle. We use household …

This paper examines trends in household consumption and saving behaviour in each of the last three recessions in the UK …

This paper examines trends in household consumption and saving behaviour in each of the last three recessions in the UK …

This paper estimates a household saving rate equation for India and Korea using long-term time series data for the 1975 …-2010 period, focusing in particular on the impact of the pre-marital sex ratio on the household saving rate. To summarize the main … impact on the household saving rate in both India and Korea, even after controlling for the usual suspects such as the aged …