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  • Diskussionspapiere 1066 / 2010

    Forecasting Private Consumption by Consumer Surveys

    Survey-based indicators such as the consumer confidence are widely seen as leading indicators for economic activity, especially for the future path of private consumption. Although they receive high attention in the media, their forecasting power appears to be very limited. Therefore, this paper takes a fresh look on the survey data, which serve as a basis for the consumer confidence indicator (CCI) ...

    2010| Christian Dreger, Konstantin A. Kholodilin
  • SOEPpapers 327 / 2010

    Family Events and Timing of Intergenerational Transfers

    This research investigates how family events in adult children's lives influence the timing of their parents' financial transfers. We draw on retrospective data collected by the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) and use event history models to study the effects of marriage, divorce, and childbirth on receiving large gifts from parents. We find increased chances of receiving gifts of houses or ...

    2010| Thomas Leopold, Thorsten Schneider
  • Diskussionspapiere 1056 / 2010

    Confronting the Representative Consumer with Household-Size Heterogeneity

    Much analysis in macroeconomics empirically addresses economy-wide incentives behind consumer/investment choices by using insights from the way a single representative household would behave. Heterogeneity at the micro level can jeopardize attempts to back up the representative consumer construct with microfoundations. One complex aspect of micro-level heterogeneity is household size, as individuals ...

    2010| Christos Koulovatianos, Carsten Schröder, Ulrich Schmidt
  • Diskussionspapiere 1046 / 2010

    Household Savings Decision and Income Uncertainty

    This paper empirically investigates the effects of changes in the interest rate as well as transitory income uncertainty on households' consumption-savings decision. Applying a structural demand model to German survey data, we estimate the uncompensated interest rate elasticity for savings, in line with the literature, to around zero. Accordingly, any policy-induced variation of net returns to savings ...

    2010| Martin Beznoska, Richard Ochmann
  • Externe Monographien

    One Last Puff? Public Smoking Bans and Smoking Behavior

    Bonn: IZA, 2010, 35 S.
    (Discussion Paper Series / Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit ; 4873)
    | Silke Anger, Michael Kvasnicka, Thomas Siedler
  • Externe Monographien

    One Last Puff? Public Smoking Bans and Smoking Behavior

    Essen: RWI, 2010, 37 S.
    (Ruhr Economic Papers ; 180)
    | Silke Anger, Michael Kvasnicka, Thomas Siedler
  • SOEPpapers 254 / 2009

    Accounting for Imputed and Capital Income Flows in Income Inequality Analyses

    Using representative and consistent microdata from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) from 1985-2007, we illustrate that capital income (CI = return on financial investments) and imputed rent (IR = return on investments in owner-occupied housing) have become increasingly important sources of economic inequality in Germany over the last two decades. Whereas the operationalization of CI in ...

    2009| Joachim R. Frick, Markus M. Grabka
  • Refereed essays Web of Science

    Explaining the Hump in Life Cycle Consumption Profiles

    This paper documents life cycle (or age) profiles of (log) household income, durable and non-durable consumption for Dutch households after explicitly controlling for time (or business cycle) effects and birth cohort effects. We find that both measures of consumption as well as income is clearly hump shaped over the life cycle. Hence, real consumption per household seems to track income over the life ...

    In: De Economist 157 (2009), 1, S. 107-120 | Rob Alessie, Joppe de Ree
  • SOEPpapers 249 / 2009

    Zur Entwicklung der Sparquoten der privaten Haushalte: eine Auswertung von Haushaltsdaten des SOEP

    According to the National Accounts the German savings rate has increased continuously since 2001 after it fell continuously from 1991. This increase was rather unexpected and hence it is interesting to analyse whether the savings rate of the total population has increased or whether the increase in the aggregated savings rate has been due to the fact that the savings behaviour of certain socio-economic ...

    2009| Ulrike Stein
  • SOEPpapers 240 / 2009

    Precautionary and Entrepreneurial Saving: New Evidence from German Households

    The well-documented positive correlation between income risk and wealth was interpreted as evidence for high amounts of precautionary wealth in various studies. However, the large estimates emerged from pooling non-entrepreneurs and entrepreneurs without controlling for heterogeneity. This paper provides evidence for Germany based on representative panel data including private wealth balance sheets. ...

    2009| Frank M. Fossen, Davud Rostam-Afschar
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