Three Essays on Households' Finances and Their Macroeconomic Relevance
Three Essays on Households' Finances and Their Macroeconomic Relevance
dc.contributor.advisor | Schularick, Moritz | |
dc.contributor.author | Bartscher, Alina Kristin | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2021-08-03T08:51:23Z | |
dc.date.available | 2021-08-03T08:51:23Z | |
dc.date.issued | 03.08.2021 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11811/9246 | |
dc.description.abstract | How do households make their financial decisions, and how does this affect macroeconomic outcomes such as homeownership and borrowing rates, labor supply and socioeconomic inequality? This thesis contributes to the economic literature related to these questions by studying high-quality long-run microdata and combining them with economic theory. The first chapter studies the effects of relaxing income-based mortgage borrowing constraints on housing and labor market decisions of married couples. The second chapter sheds light on the evolution of U.S. household debt since the 1950s and its drivers, with a special focus on the role of housing debt and home equity extraction. The third chapter provides long-run evidence on the college wealth premium, and its relation to households' portfolio choices. | en |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.rights | In Copyright | |
dc.rights.uri | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ | |
dc.subject | household finance | |
dc.subject | inequality | |
dc.subject | household debt | |
dc.subject | microdata | |
dc.subject | borrowing constraints | |
dc.subject | home equity extraction | |
dc.subject | college wealth premium | |
dc.subject.ddc | 330 Wirtschaft | |
dc.title | Three Essays on Households' Finances and Their Macroeconomic Relevance | |
dc.type | Dissertation oder Habilitation | |
dc.publisher.name | Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Bonn | |
dc.publisher.location | Bonn | |
dc.rights.accessRights | openAccess | |
dc.identifier.urn | https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hbz:5-63386 | |
ulbbn.pubtype | Erstveröffentlichung | |
ulbbnediss.affiliation.name | Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn | |
ulbbnediss.affiliation.location | Bonn | |
ulbbnediss.thesis.level | Dissertation | |
ulbbnediss.dissID | 6338 | |
ulbbnediss.date.accepted | 20.07.2021 | |
ulbbnediss.institute | Rechts- und Staatswissenschaftliche Fakultät / Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaften : Institut für Makroökonomik und Ökonometrie | |
ulbbnediss.fakultaet | Rechts- und Staatswissenschaftliche Fakultät | |
dc.contributor.coReferee | Kuhn, Moritz | |
ulbbnediss.contributor.gnd | 1211346609 |
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