We develop a framework for estimating the otpimal expenditure of agents subject to unobserved liquidity constraints. Our framework allows us to estimate credit ceilings as well as preferences parameters. We apply the framework to data on net resource transfers from private lenders to twenty-nine...

This paper studies under which conditions a cross-section regression yields unbiased estimates of the parapeters of an individual dynamic model with fixed effects and individual-specific responses to macro-shocks. We show that the OLS estimation of a system of non stationary variables on a...