Household spending responses to the economic impact payments of 2020: Evidence from the consumer expenditure survey

JA Parker, J Schild, L Erhard, D Johnson - 2022 - nber.org
ABSTRACT Using the Consumer Expenditure Survey and variation in amount, receipt, and
timing of receipt of Economic Impact Payments (EIPs) authorized by the CARES Act, this …

[HTML][HTML] Macroeconomic consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic

T Walmsley, A Rose, R John, D Wei, JP Hlávka… - Economic …, 2023 - Elsevier
We estimate the economic impacts of COVID-19 in the US using a disaster economic
consequence analysis framework implemented by a dynamic computable general …

[HTML][HTML] The Covid-19 shock and consumer credit: Evidence from credit card data

A Horvath, B Kay, C Wix - Journal of Banking & Finance, 2023 - Elsevier
We study the dynamic effect of the COVID-19 shock on credit card use in 2020. Local case
incidence had a strong negative effect on credit card spending in the early months of the …

Latent heterogeneity in the marginal propensity to consume

D Lewis, D Melcangi, L Pilossoph - 2024 - nber.org
We estimate the unconditional distribution of the marginal propensity to consume (MPC)
using clustering regression applied to the 2008 economic stimulus payments. By deviating …

Economic impact payments and household spending during the pandemic

JA Parker, J Schild, L Erhard… - Brookings Papers on …, 2022 - muse.jhu.edu
Households spent only a small fraction of their 2020 Economic Impact Payments (EIPs)
within a month or two of arrival, consistent with pandemic constraints on spending, other …

Uncovering retail trading in bitcoin: The impact of COVID-19 stimulus checks

A Divakaruni, P Zimmerman - Management Science, 2024 - pubsonline.informs.org
In April 2020, the US government sent economic impact payments (EIPs) directly to
households as part of its measures to address the COVID-19 pandemic. We characterize …

The how and why of household reactions to income shocks

R Colarieti, P Mei, S Stantcheva - 2024 - nber.org
This paper studies how and why households adjust their spending, saving, and borrowing in
response to transitory income shocks. We leverage new large-scale survey data to first …

Is restaurant crowdfunding immune to the COVID-19 pandemic?

Y Yang, Y Koh - International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality …, 2022 - emerald.com
Purpose In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic had a devastating impact on global health care
and the economy. The restaurant industry has been especially hit hard by the statewide …

Acts of Congress and COVID-19: A literature review on the impact of increased unemployment insurance benefits and stimulus checks

E Falcettoni, VM Nygaard - 2020 - books.google.com
This chapter provides an overview of economic studies analyzing the impact of the increase
in unemployment insurance (UI) benefits and the distribution of stimulus checks prescribed …

[HTML][HTML] Financial concerns and the marginal propensity to consume in COVID times: Evidence from UK survey data

B Albuquerque, G Green - Journal of Macroeconomics, 2023 - Elsevier
We study how household concerns about their future financial situation may affect the
marginal propensity to consume (MPC) during the COVID-19 pandemic. We use a …