Søren Leth-Petersen

TL;DR: In this article, the authors show that the effects of retirement savings policies on wealth accumulation depend on whether they change savings rates by active or passive choice, and conclude that automatic contributions are more effective at increasing savings rates than subsidies for three reasons: subsidies induce relatively few individuals to respond, they generate substantial crowd-out conditional on response, and they do not increase the savings of passive individuals, who are least prepared for retirement.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined if there is a wealth effect of house prices on consumption and found that there is no evidence of a housing wealth effect on consumption, controlling for factors related to competing explanations.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated whether total household expenditure and debt is affected by an exogenous increase in access to credit provided by a credit market reform that enabled Danish house owners to use housing equity as collateral for consumption loans.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyzed the effects of policy measures aimed at reducing the consumption of energy for space heating in apartment blocks from Denmark, finding that building regulations have been important in reducing energy consumption in new buildings and that conditional price responses are relatively small or non-existent.

TL;DR: In this paper, the feasibility of deriving a measure of total expenditure at the household level from administrative micro-data on income and wealth was investigated, using Danish administrative data that provides measures of disposable income and the holding of different assets at the end of the year.