Using data on the production and usage of cotton, the paper develops estimates for the production and consumption of … textiles and consumption of textiles, and (c) consumption of clothing in India in relation to the rest of the world. …

cycle, of several dimensions of economic inequality, including wages, labor earnings, income, consumption, and wealth. After … distribution. Consumption inequality increased less than disposable income inequality, and tracked the latter much more closely at …

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 …This paper studies the role of detrended wealth in predicting stock returns. We call a transitory movement in wealth …

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. …

income growth, wealth inequality and political participation. We predict that developing countries will tend to overinvest in …