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Jiri Slacalek

Researcher at European Central Bank

Publications -  62
Citations -  2491

Jiri Slacalek is an academic researcher from European Central Bank. The author has contributed to research in topics: Consumption (economics) & Marginal propensity to consume. The author has an hindex of 24, co-authored 60 publications receiving 2191 citations. Previous affiliations of Jiri Slacalek include German Institute for Economic Research & The RiverBank.

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How Large are Housing and Financial Wealth Effects? A New Approach

TL;DR: In this article, a simple new method for measuring "wealth effects" on aggregate consumption is presented, which exploits the stickiness of consumption growth (sometimes interpreted as reflecting consumption 'habits') to distinguish between immediate and eventual wealth effects.
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How Large Are Housing and Financial Wealth Effects? A New Approach

TL;DR: In this article, a simple new method for measuring "wealth effects" on aggregate consumption is presented, which exploits the stickiness of consumption growth (sometimes interpreted as reflecting consumption 'habits' to distinguish between immediate and eventual wealth effects.
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Disagreement Among Forecasters in G7 Countries

TL;DR: The authors investigate determinants of disagreement about key economic indicators and find that credible monetary policy contributes to anchoring of expectations about inflation and interest rates, and that disagreement about economic activity, in particular about GDP growth, has a distinct dynamic from disagreement about prices: inflation and rates.
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What Drives Personal Consumption? The Role of Housing and Financial Wealth

TL;DR: This paper investigated the effect of wealth on consumption in a new dataset with financial and housing wealth from 16 countries and found that consumption only barely reacts to wealth in some countries, but not for the US and UK.