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Antonio Acconcia

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The Consumption Response to Liquidity-Enhancing Transfers: Evidence from Italian Earthquakes

Paper Working paper | By Antonio Acconcia and Saverio Simonelli | Jun 2015

Exploiting three earthquakes in Italy as quasi-experiments, we analyse the response of homeowners’ consumption to transfers targeted to finance housing repair and reconstruction. To the extent that funds are made available up-front, these transfers are akin to loans, mainly affecting the liquidity of households’ wealth