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Consumption Patterns of Indebted Households: Unravelling the Relevance of Fiscal Policy

We have investigated the influence of fiscal instruments, notably taxes on income and government spending, on household consumption in two different samples and two measures of household debt to provide a comprehensive analysis of the topic. We used dynamic panel models and the GMM approach for 32 advanced and emerging countries from 1995 to 2019. Our findings suggest that fiscal impulses increase private consumption, but when households are highly indebted, patterns change, and increased government spending or reduced taxes, in the presence of high indebtedness, actually discourage household consumption compared to the baseline (lower debt) group.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: CESifo Working Paper ; No. 10565

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Multiple or Simultaneous Equation Models: Time-Series Models; Dynamic Quantile Regressions; Dynamic Treatment Effect Models; Diffusion Processes; State Space Models
Central Banks and Their Policies
Fiscal Policy
Comparative or Joint Analysis of Fiscal and Monetary Policy; Stabilization; Treasury Policy
Thema
household consumption
household debt
fiscal policy
panel data

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Afonso, António
de Sá Fortes Leitão Rodrigues, Eduardo
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
(wo)
Munich
(wann)
2023

Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:41 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Afonso, António
  • de Sá Fortes Leitão Rodrigues, Eduardo
  • Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)

Entstanden

  • 2023

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