Replication material for: Galli, A., Hizli, L., Koeniger, W., Rosenblatt-Wisch, R. Consumption and saving patterns in Switzerland: new evidence based on administrative tax data.
2026
We use administrative data on income and wealth of taxpayers in the canton of Bern to impute consumption based on the budget constraint. We validate the imputed consumption and use the panel data on consumption, income and wealth to provide stylized facts on consumption and saving patterns in Switzerland for the period 2002-2022.We document a large drop of the saving rate in the first ten years after retirement and show that 75% of permanent income shocks and 40% of transitory income shocks transmit to total consumption expenditures.
Consumption
Income
Wealth
Tax data
Saving rate
Consumption insurance
Switzerland
Switzerland
2026
Replication material for: Galli, A., Hizli, L., Koeniger, W., Rosenblatt-Wisch, R. (2026). Consumption and saving patterns in Switzerland: new evidence based on administrative tax data. FORS. https://doi.org/10.25597/r38x-dj52
The replication package reproduces the results presented in the paper and is organised into five subfolders: 00_data, 01_code, 02_figures, 03_apc, 04_covid_robustness. The readme README describes the content of the replication_package_GHKR and contains instructions to replicators.
Software information : R 4.4.1 on RStudio 2025.09.1+401; Stata 19.0
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