Dimitris Christelis

Biographic Data

ID1241286
NAMEDimitris Christelis
GIVEN NAMESDimitris
FAMILY NAMEChristelis
SIGNATURECHRISTELIS D
AFFILIATIONSAdam Smith Institute
ORCID0000-0003-4158-5036
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS20
AUTHOR COUNT6
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2009
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2020
H-INDEX2

  • Consumption Uncertainty and Precautionary Saving

    Dimitris Christelis, Dimitris Georgarakos et al.ARTICLEThe Review of Economics and…2020

    Using survey data from a representative sample of Dutch households, we estimate the strength of precautionary saving by eliciting subjective expectations on future consumption. Expected consumption risk is positively correlated with self-employment and income risk and negatively with age. We insert these subjective expectations (rather than consumption realizations, as in the existing literature) in an Euler equation for consumption and estimate …

  • The causal effect of social activities on cognition: Evidence from 20 European countries

    Open AccessDimitris Christelis, Loretti Dobrescu et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2020References: 3

  • Asymmetric Consumption Effects of Transitory Income Shocks

    Open AccessDimitris Christelis, Dimitris Georgarakos et al.ARTICLEThe Economic Journal2019Cited by: 5References: 19

    We use the responses of a representative sample of Dutch households to survey questions that ask how much their consumption would change in response to unexpected, transitory income shocks (positive or negative). The questionnaire also distinguishes between relatively small income changes (a one-month increase or drop in income), and relatively larger ones (equal to three-months' income). The results are broadly in line with models of intertempor…

  • Differences in Portfolios across Countries: Economic Environment versus Household Characteristics

    Dimitris Christelis, Dimitris Georgarakos et al.ARTICLEThe Review of Economics and…2013

    We use cross-country microdata and counterfactual methods to document international differences in ownership and holdings of stocks, private businesses, homes, and mortgages among older households in thirteen countries. We decompose these differences into two parts, related to population characteristics and economic environments. Shortly prior to the recent financial crisis, U.S. households tended to invest more in stocks and less in homes and to…

  • Cognitive abilities and portfolio choice

    Open AccessDimitris Christelis, Tullio Jappelli et al.ARTICLEEuropean Economic Review2010

  • Income, wealth and financial fragility in Europe

    Open AccessDimitris Christelis, Dimitrios Christelis et al.ARTICLEJournal of European Social Policy2009Cited by: 15References: 1

    The article examines the distribution of income and wealth among the generation of Europeans aged 65 and over, using data drawn from the first wave of the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE). It looks at how cross-country comparisons of income, wealth and debt are affected by differences in purchasing power, household size and taxation, and shows that some seemingly wide international differences appear less so when the prop…