changes in risk to fluctuations in aggregate consumption and (d) the significant impact of incomplete markets on aggregate …One of the basic motives for saving is the accumulation of wealth to insure future welfare. Both introspection and … extant research on consumption insurance find that people face substantial risks that they do not fairly pool. In theory, the …

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 …

recognition to the intertemporal nature of households' saving decisions. Like traditional IS-LM, however, the optimizing version … tends to understate the value of money as an indicator for monetary policy. …

. Although money is of itself neutral in these models, the presence of menu costs, expectations which are not unit elastic, or …

The paper revisits the investment simulation based on strategies exhibited by Generalized (m,2)-Zipf law to present an … particular length of words, we can see how wild historical fluctuations over time series data coped with the Zipf strategies. …

the potential mechanisms driving economic fluctuations as well as modify key policy implications. We first show how a …

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 …