Arbeitspapier
Perceived Precautionary Savings Motives: Evidence from FinTech
We study the spending response of first-time borrowers to an overdraft facility and elicit their preferences, beliefs, and motives through a FinTech application. Users increase their spending permanently, lower their savings rate, and reallocate spending from non-discretionary to discretionary goods. Interestingly, liquid users react more than others but do not tap into negative deposits. The credit line acts as a form of insurance. These results are not fully consistent with models of financial constraints, buffer stock models, or present-bias preferences. We label this channel perceived precautionary savings motives: Liquid users behave as if they faced strong precautionary savings motives even though no observables, including elicited preferences and beliefs, suggest they should.
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: CESifo Working Paper ; No. 8123
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Household Saving; Personal Finance
Macroeconomics: Consumption; Saving; Wealth
Money Supply; Credit; Money Multipliers
Banks; Depository Institutions; Micro Finance Institutions; Mortgages
- Subject
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household finance
consumption
behavioral finance
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
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D'Acunto, Francesco
Rauter, Thomas
Scheuch, Christoph
Weber, Michael
Weber, Michael
- Event
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Veröffentlichung
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Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
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Munich
- (when)
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2020
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:42 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- D'Acunto, Francesco
- Rauter, Thomas
- Scheuch, Christoph
- Weber, Michael
- Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
Time of origin
- 2020