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Applied Economics Letters Volume 23, 2016 - Issue 10
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Does deflation affect household spending? The case of the Netherlands

Robert-Paul BerbenEconomics and Research Division, De Nederlandsche Bank, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Ad StokmanEconomics and Research Division, De Nederlandsche Bank, Amsterdam, The NetherlandsCorrespondence[email protected]
Pages 685-689 | Published online: 20 Oct 2015
 
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ABSTRACT

This article investigates the impact of deflation on real private consumption and residential investment by Dutch households during the 1980–2013 period. We estimate theoretically founded consumption and investment equations and show that a fall in the general price level significantly negatively affects both growth in real consumption and residential investment. The impact on residential investment is more delayed, but stronger.

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1 More than one million households have ‘underwater’ mortgages (Web magazine Statistics Netherlands, 22 March 2013).

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