What Drives Personal Consumption? The Role of Housing and Financial Wealth
In: ECB Working Paper No. 1117
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In: ECB Working Paper No. 1117
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In: ECB Working Paper No. 2190
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In: NBER Working Paper No. w26630
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In: CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP14245
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Using the Consensus Economics dataset with individual expert forecasts from G7 countries we investigate determinants of disagreement (crosssectional dispersion of forecasts) about six key economic indicators. Disagreement about real variables (GDP, consumption, investment and unemployment) has a distinct dynamic from disagreement about nominal variables (inflation and interest rate). Disagreement about real variables intensifies strongly during recessions, including the current one (by about 40 percent in terms of the interquartile range). Disagreement about nominal variables rises with their level, has fallen after 1998 or so (by 30 percent), and is considerably lower under independent central banks (by 35 percent). Cross-sectional dispersion for both groups increases with uncertainty about the underlying actual indicators, though to a lesser extent for nominal series. Country-by-country regressions for inflation and interest rates reveal that both the level of disagreement and its sensitivity to macroeconomic variables tend to be larger in Italy, Japan and the United Kingdom, where central banks became independent only around the mid-1990s. These findings suggest that more credible monetary policy can substantially contribute to anchoring of expectations about nominal variables; its effects on disagreement about real variables are moderate.
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In: ECB Working Paper No. 1082
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In: ECB Working Paper No. 887
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In: Journal of economic dynamics & control, Band 115, S. 103879
ISSN: 0165-1889
In: NBER Working Paper No. w26131
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In: American economic review, Band 104, Heft 5, S. 107-111
ISSN: 1944-7981
Using a standard, realistically calibrated model of buffer-stock saving with transitory and permanent income shocks, we study how cross-country differences in the wealth distribution and household income dynamics affect the marginal propensity to consume out of transitory shocks (MPC). Across the 15 countries in our sample, we find that the aggregate consumption response ranges between 0.1 and 0.4 and is stronger (i) in economies with large wealth inequality, where a larger proportion of households has little wealth, (ii) under larger transitory income shocks, and (iii) when we consider households only use liquid assets (rather than net wealth) to smooth consumption.
In: ECB Working Paper No. 1648
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In: ECB Working Paper No. 1655
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In: IMF Working Paper No. 12/219
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In: ECB Working Paper No. 1474
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