consumption and investment expenditures, as well as their broadly defined components, are examined. We also test for effects of … money on long run reallocations of consumption expenditures among durables, nondurables, and services. The time series …This paper tests for long run effects of money on real expenditures in the U.S. over the 1959-2002 period. Real …

are found not to equal zero and this in turns affects all estimates of consumption, labor supply and saving elasticities … profit function rationalizing consumption, labor supply and savings is specified, estimated and used to test commonly … maintained separability hypotheses. Both consumption- labor and time separability are rejected. Cross-price Frisch elasticities …

are found not to equal zero and this in turns affects all estimates of consumption, labor supply and saving elasticities. … profit function rationalizing consumption, labor supply and savings is specified, estimated and used to test commonly … maintained separability hypotheses. Both consumption- labor and time separability are rejected. Cross-price Frisch elasticities …

, agents’ prior beliefs are endogenously heterogeneous. Finally, in a consumption-saving problem with stochastic income, agents … problem, agents overestimate the return on their investment and exhibit a preference for skewness. In general equilibrium …

precautionary saving motive in a two-period model with Kreps-Porteus preferences. For small risks, we derive a measure of the … strength of the precautionary saving motive, which generalizes the concept of ‘prudence’ introduced by Kimball (1990b). For … large risks, we show that decreasing absolute risk aversion guarantees that the precautionary saving motive is stronger than …

relative to the present is reduced. Hence, due to a rise in terror activity, investment goes down, and in the long run income … and consumption go down as well. Governments can offset terror by putting tax revenues into the production of security …, at the level of the death toll by about the same size as due to car accidents, is expected to decrease annual consumption …

Consumption and Investment are significantly and negatively affected by all terror indicators, and the largest impact is …

fixed investment that became excessive and proved to be unsustainable, while the productivity acceleration helps to account …-01 collapse of investment and the stock market proves that good public policy matters, going beyond the narrowly defined …

This paper uses household surveys from 13 developing countries to describe consumption choices, health and education … daily consumption per capita is between $2 and $4 or between $6 and $10. The data shed lights on differences and … have fewer, healthier, and better educated children. While there are clear differences in consumption patterns between the …