This paper provides instrumental variables estimates of the response of aggregate private consumption to transitory … transitory shocks to aggregate output on private consumption in poor countries. …

Australian data, we model non-price credit supply conditions within equilibrium correction models of consumption, house prices …, but also interact with key economic variables. We show that credit conditions impact on consumption by: (i) lowering the … real activity; and (iii) facilitating intertemporal consumption smoothing. …

payments (e.g. tax rebates) are spent on non-durable household consumption in the quarter that they are received. We develop a … Finances. A version of the model parametrized to the 2001 tax rebate episode is able to generate consumption responses to …

. We study private consumption choices focusing on former East Germany, where differential access to Western television was … significant impact of previous exposure to Western television on aggregate consumption levels. However, exposure to Western … broadcasts affects the composition of consumption, biasing choices in favor of categories of goods with high intensity of pre …

In this paper we examine the link between wage inequality and consumption inequality using a life cycle model that … incorporates household consumption and family labor supply decisions. We derive analytical expressions based on approximations for … the dynamics of consumption, hours, and earnings of two earners in the presence of correlated wage shocks, non …

This paper investigates the causes of the Italian consumption bust of the early 1990s by estimating deviations from … 'normal' consumption using household level data for 1985-94. The data set used is a particularly rich, but as yet unexplored … households each year. The main findings are that the decline in consumption was larger for the working age households. The fall …

In this paper we analyse the relationship between unemployment and consumption. We study this relationship with panel … smaller consumption losses in Spanish and Italian households. We discuss this finding in the light of different market and … that credit and insurance markets are also more developed in the North than in the South, existing theories of consumption …

A method of testing the relative importance for consumption of full insurance behaviour and changes in income is … consumption. Both types of behaviour are found to be statistically significant, but the full insurance model is found to explain … considerably more of the growth in consumption than changes in income do. …

one that produces a deviation from its shared trend with consumption and labor income. Using quarterly stock market data … behavior imply that the log consumption-aggregate (human and nonhuman) wealth ratio forecasts the expected return on aggregate … components may be expressed in terms of observable variables, namely in terms of consumption, nonhuman wealth and labor income …