the period 1980q1-2011q4. That is, income is more often found to predict consumption and saving than the converse. Our …The ‘saving for a rainy day’ hypothesis implies that households’ saving decisions reflect that they can (rationally … modus operandi is to investigate the ‘saving for a rainy day’ hypothesis by testing (weak) exogeneity of income and …

consumption, aggregate wealth, and labour income should predict both stock returns and housing returns. We use quarterly data for … temporarily allow consumption to rise. Regarding housing returns, if housing assets are complementary to stocks, then investors … their consumption. …

deviations from the common trend among consumption, aggregate wealth, and labour income, cay, and focus on the implications for … future stock returns to be higher, they will temporarily allow consumption to rise. Regarding housing returns, if housing … substitutes consumption will be temporarily reduced. …

In this paper we analyze 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 …

mortality in which intra-temporal utility stems from both consumption and religious contributions. Individuals also decide how … to allocate resources between religious contributions (which have both a this-life consumption value and an after …-life investment value) and other consumption expenditures. If religious contributions do not have an after-life investment value, the …

There is substantial consensus in the literature that positive uncertainty shocks predict a slowdown of economic …. Further, while during earlier parts of our sample both a slowdown in consumption and investment growth contribute to a … decomposition for consumption growth shows that the contribution of stock market volatility becomes negligible as we go from earlier …

We show how optimal saving in a two-period model is affected when prudence and riskaversion of the underlying utility …