Nicolas Albacete

Research Section
Nicolas Albacete

Research interests

  • Financial stability
  • Household consumption and saving behavior
  • Survey methodology

Selected publications

Albacete, N., P. Fessler and P. Lindner (2025). Who’s Asking? Interviewer Effects on Unit Nonresponse in the Household Finance and Consumption Survey. Survey Methodology, 51(2), 2025, forthcoming.

Albacete, N. and P. Lindner (2025). Eurosystem Household Finance and Consumption Survey 2025. Methodological Notes for Austria; OeNB Reports, 2025, forthcoming.

Albacete, N., P. Fessler and A. Pekanov (2025). The Role of MPC Heterogeneity for Fiscal and Monetary Policy in the Euro Area. Journal of Macroeconomics, Volume 86, 2025, forthcoming.

Albacete, N., P. Fessler and P. Lindner (2025). The Wealth Distribution and Redistributive Preferences: Evidence from a Randomized Survey Experiment. European Journal of Political Economy, Volume 90, Part B, 2025, forthcoming.

Albacete, N., P. Lindner and K. Wagner (2023). Eurosystem Household Finance and Consumption Survey 2021. Methodological Notes for Austria. OeNB Report 1, 2023.

Albacete, N., P. Fessler, F. Kalleitner and P. Lindner (2021). How has COVID-19 affected the financial situation of households in Austria? Monetary Policy and the Economy Q4/20-Q1/21, OeNB, pp. 111-130.

Albacete, N., P. Fessler and P. Lindner (2018). One policy to rule them all? On the effectiveness of LTV, DTI and DSTI ratio limits as macroprudential policy tools. Financial Stability Report 35, OeNB, pp. 67-83.

Albacete, N., D. Ritzberger-Grünwald and W. Waschiczek (2017). FX household loans in Austria – a micro view on a macro issue. In: Banerjee, Fabrizio Coricelli (ed.). Crisis, Credit and Resource Misallocation: Evidence from Europe during the Great Recession, CEPR Press, London, pp. 237–260.

Albacete, N. and P. Lindner (2017). How strong is the wealth channel of monetary policy transmission? A microeconometric evaluation for Austria. Monetary Policy & the Economy Q2/17, OeNB, pp. 32–53.

Albacete, N. and P. Lindner (2017). Simulating the impact of borrower-based macroprudential policies on mortgages and the real estate sector in Austria – evidence from the Household Finance and Consumption Survey 2014. Financial Stability Report 33, OeNB, pp. 52-68.

Albacete, N., P. Fessler and P. Lindner (2016). The Distribution of Residential Property Price Changes across Homeowners and its Implications for Financial Stability in Austria. Financial Stability Report 31, OeNB, pp. 62–81.