Download or read book Essays in Household Finance and Macroeconomics written by Franco Zeccchetto and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first chapter, we analyze the removal of the credit-risk guarantees provided by the Government Sponsored Enterprises (GSEs) in a model with agents heterogeneous in income and house price risk. We find that wealth inequality increases, driven by higher mortgage spreads and housing rents. Housing holdings become more concentrated. Foreclosures fall. The removal benefits high-income households while hurting low and mid-income households (renters and highly leveraged mortgagors with conforming loans). GSE reform requires compensating transfers, sufficiently high elasticity of rental supply, or linking GSE reform with the elimination of the mortgage interest deduction.

Download or read book Essays in Macroeconomics and Household Finance written by Eirik E. Brandsaas and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation studies how family resources interact with financial constraints in households' savings and investment decisions. The first chapter quantifies the contribution of parental transfers to the homeownership rate of the young. Parents and children interact without commitment in an incomplete markets life-cycle overlapping generations model with housing. Transfers increase homeownership by relaxing borrowing constraints and reducing risks associated with homeownership. Moreover, children with wealthy parents may overinvest in housing to extract larger future transfers from their parents. I find that transfers increase the homeownership rate among households aged 25-44 by 15 p.p. (31%). Finally, I show that policies that reduce sales costs are more effective than relaxing financial constraints or purchase costs at decreasing the role of parental wealth in children's housing outcomes. The second chapter studies whether homeownership can explain the low stock market participation rate in the United States. I first show that the low participation rate is driven by high exit rates among participants and that exit is frequently tied to house purchases. I then extend a workhorse life-cycle model of portfolio choice to include housing. After estimating the models, with and without housing, I find that housing improves model fit. In particular, housing reduces the unexplained participation rate between the model and the data by 71%. Moreover, housing improves model fit by increasing the exit rate among young and middle-aged households and decreasing homeowners' liquid wealth. The third chapter studies the effect of parental wealth on a household's risk-taking in asset and labor markets. Together with my co-authors, we show that households with wealthier parents take more risk in their portfolio and labor market choices. Since risk in one dimension can be offset by choices in other assets, we develop a combined risk measure robust to this concern. Our results have implications on the persistence of wealth across generations and wealth inequality. Our results provide one explanation for the finding that returns to wealth are increasing in wealth since wealth is correlated over generations.

Download or read book Essays in Macroeconomics and Household Finance written by and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Essays in Household Finance and Macroeconomics of Heterogeneous Agents written by Mengli Sha and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation develops and estimates structural models with heterogeneous agents to understand empirical patterns from micro data that have important aggregate implications. The first two chapters study the aggregate impacts and distributional effects of credit supply shocks from banks and nonbank financial institutions on consumer durable expenditures. Subprime auto lending is concentrated in nonbank lenders. During the Great Recession, nonbank subprime auto lending declined dramatically vis-à-vis banks loans. The first chapter documents these facts and studies in detail how banks and nonbanks offer different loan rate schedules to different borrowers. Motivated by these facts, the second chapter embeds a novel ingredient of endogenous lender choices into a dynamic equilibrium model with heterogeneous households and lenders. The estimated model generates a 21% decline in auto sales triggered by nonbank credit supply shocks and income shocks and attributes approximately 37% of the collapse of the U.S. auto sales during the Great Recession to nonbank credit supply shocks, whereas the contribution of a bank credit supply shock of the same magnitude would have been merely 0.28%. Moreover, this analysis highlights different distributional implications of bank and nonbank credit supply shocks through a new mechanism: asymmetric ability to borrow. This concept captures the limited flexibility in the lender choices of nonbank borrowers, which negatively affects nonbank borrowers' car purchasing behaviors but not those of bank borrowers. Consequently, nonbank credit supply shocks have much larger impacts on durable expenditures, compared to bank shocks. These results cast light on the effectiveness of the Term Asset-Backed Securities Loan Facility (TALF), the emergency lending program that alleviated panic in the asset-backed securities market during the Great Recession: Without this program, auto sales could have dropped substantially more. The third chapter studies the role of overconfidence in households' stock portfolio adjustment decisions. Barber and Odean (2000) find that households who trade stocks more have a lower net return and attribute this pattern to irrationality, specifically overconfidence. In contrast, we find that household financial choices generated from a dynamic optimization problem with rational agents and portfolio adjustment costs can reproduce the observed distribution of household turnover rates as well as the observed pattern that households with the highest turnover rates have the lowest net returns. Various forms of irrationality, modeled as beliefs about income and return processes that are not data based, do not improve the ability of the baseline model to explain these turnover and net return patterns.

Download or read book Essays on Household Finance and the Macroeconomy written by Young-Joon Park and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Essays in Finance and Macroeconomics written by Pedram Jahangiry and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Essays in Dynamic Household Finance with Heterogeneous Agents written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Essays in Household Finance and Housing Economics written by Cindy K. Soo and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Essays on Household Finance written by Samuli Knüpfer and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Essays in Household Finance written by Claudia Robles Garcia and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Essays on Household Finance written by Haiyue Dong and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This doctoral dissertation consists of three self-contained essays covering different aspects of household finance.?The first paper, Bank Competition and Household Non-Housing Debt: Evidence from U.S. Bank Deregulation, examines the effect of bank deregulation in the U.S. on household non-housing debt. Using household level data from 1984 to 2000, I find that deregulation increases non-housing debt as well as the ratio of non-housing debt to income, with the effects mainly driven by households in the upper half of the income distribution and by auto loans. I show that deregulation has no impact on the leverage of households in the lower half of the income distribution; the increase in debt among these households is proportional to their increase in income following deregulation.?The second paper, Inequality and Household Mortgage Demand: Evidence from HMDA Application Data, uses aggregated mortgage applications at the county level compiled from Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA) data to examine the relationship between the change in household mortgage demand and the change in inequality between 1998 and 2017 in the United States. This paper's main finding is that mortgage demand is, in general, negatively associated with inequality. However, in areas with lower segregation, the association is smaller in scale; in fact, the sign is even overturned in certain specifications, indicating that exposure to rich households is important for inequality to induce mortgage demand.?The third paper, Retail Investor Attention and SPAC Characteristics and Returns, examines the link between retail attention and SPAC characteristics and returns using data from various sources, including posts on the online forum Reddit. The paper finds that retail investors pay more attention to SPACs with larger market capitalization, more monetary investment from sponsors, and industries that are the subject of intense discussion in the stock market. Through an event study of SPAC merger announcements, the paper finds that SPACs that attract more retail attention ahead of the merger announcement see a sharp decrease in abnormal returns after the announcement. In contrast, in the absence of such prior retail attention, such pattern in abnormal returns is not observed. In addition, retail sentiment can account for a substantial proportion of the cross-sectional cumulative abnormal returns.

Download or read book Essays on Household Finance written by Bruno Ferman and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation consists of three essays. The first chapter studies whether credit demand is sensitive to interest rates, to the prominence of interest rate disclosure, and to nudges. Consumer credit regulations usually require that lenders disclose interest rates. However, lenders can evade the spirit of these regulations by concealing rates in the fine print and highlighting low monthly payments. I explore the importance of such evasion in Brazil, where consumer credit for lower and middle income borrowers is expanding rapidly, despite particularly high interest rates. By randomizing contract interest rates and the degree of interest rate disclosure, I show that most borrowers are highly rate-sensitive, whether or not interest rates are prominently disclosed in marketing materials. An exception is high-risk borrowers, for whom rate disclosure matters. These clients are rate-sensitive only when disclosure is prominent. I also show that borrowers who choose this type of financing are responsive to nudges that favor longer-term plans. Despite this evidence, the financial consequences of information disclosure, even for high-risk borrowers, are relatively modest, and clients are less susceptible to nudges when the stakes are higher. Together, these results suggest that consumers in Brazil are surprisingly adept at decoding information even when lenders try to obfuscate the interest rate information, suggesting a fair amount of sophistication in this population. The second chapter (co-authored with Leonardo Bursztyn, Florian Ederer, and Noam Yuchtman) studies the importance of peer effects in financial decisions. Using a field experiment conducted with a financial brokerage, we attempt to disentangle channels through which a person's financial decisions affect his peers'. When someone purchases an asset, his peers may also want to purchase it because they learn from his choice ("social learning") and because his possession of the asset directly affects others' utility of owning the same asset ("social utility"). We randomize whether one member of a peer pair who chose to purchase an asset has that choice implemented, thus randomizing possession of the asset. Then, we randomize whether the second member of the pair: 1) receives no information about his peer, or 2) is informed of his peer's desire to purchase the asset and the result of the randomization determining possession. We thus estimate the effects of: (a) learning plus possession, and (b) learning alone, relative to a control group. In the control group, 42% of individuals purchased the asset, increasing to 71% in the "social learning only" group, and to 93% in the "social learning and social utility" group. These results suggest that herding behavior in financial markets may result from social learning, and also from a desire to own the same assets as one's peers. The third chapter (co-authored with Pedro Daniel Tavares) uses data on checking and savings accounts for a sample of clients from a large bank in Brazil to calculate the prevalence and cost of "borrowing high and lending low" behavior in a setting where the spread between the borrowing and saving rates is on the order of 150% per year. We find that most clients maintain an overdrawn account at least one day a year while having liquid assets. However, the yearly amount of avoidable financial charges would only correspond, on average, to less than 0.5% of clients' yearly earnings. We also show that consumers are less likely to engage in such behavior when the costs of doing so are higher. These results suggest that the spread between the borrowing and saving rates is a key determinant of this behavior.

Download or read book Household Credit Usage written by B. W. Ambrose and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-10-29 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In response to growing interest in household finance, this collection of essays with a foreword by John Y. Campbell, studies household and consumer use of credit instruments. It shows how individual consumers and households utilize various credit alternatives in managing their consumption and savings and suggests areas for future research.

Download or read book Essays in Household Finance and Banking written by Matteo Benetton and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Essays in Household Finance written by Fernando Lopez (Professor of finance) and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation consists of three essays that examine the determinants of individual financial decision making and the welfare implications of those decisions. In the first essay, I consider an important dimension of individual welfare, namely mental health, to study whether the use of different financial services helped to withstand the damage caused by a large earthquake that hit Chile in February 2010. Using a rich nationally representative panel data set and geographic differences in ground shaking caused by the earthquake as an exogenous source of damage, I find that earthquake insurance reduced the incidence of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) by more than 50% among individuals who lived in properties that were damaged by the earthquake. However, I find no significant effects for the amount of savings and bank relationships. Overall, these results suggest that the welfare impact of financial services is driven by the ability to transfer resources across states of the world, but not through time. In the second essay, I study the extent to which low income students in the U.S. understand and take into consideration the financial aspects of their higher education. Using a rich data set from a large U.S. non-profit organization, I find that low income post-secondary students are poorly informed about three main financial aspects of their higher education: expected income, financing costs and opportunity cost of being enrolled. This result holds for students who are academically talented, have been exposed to financial education (including a semester-long personal finance class) and relevant financial experiences. Furthermore, preliminary results of a randomized controlled trial (N=117) suggest that an hour-long financial education workshop on the main financial aspects of college increases students' GPA by 0.2 points (p-value=0.15) and their ability to receive financial aid from the non-profit organization by 11.4 percentage points (p-value=0.25). Overall, these results suggest that (lack of) financial literacy can affect both educational attainment and financial outcomes of low income post-secondary students. In the third essay, I study if civic capital, defined as the set of values and beliefs within a community that promote cooperation for socially valuable purposes (Guiso, Sapienza and Zingales, 2011), affects the use of deposit accounts among Chilean households. Using an institutional setting of limited supply side barriers for access to deposit accounts and a rich household data set, I find that households from areas with higher levels of civic capital, measured as the rate of registration to vote, are more likely to have savings accounts and hold larger amounts in those accounts. This association is stronger for households that are less educated and less intensive users of communication and information devices such as phone, computer and the internet. These results are consistent with the idea that civic capital helps to overcome educational and informational barriers that limit the demand for deposit accounts.

Download or read book Essays on Household Finance Venture Capital and Labor written by Zhongchen Hu and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Essays on Household Finance written by M. Angrisani and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: