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 …

stock' model of optimal consumption in the presence of labor income uncertainty and credit constraints. Saving in the model … saving rate's long-term decline, while fluctuations in net wealth and uncertainty capture the bulk of the business …We argue that the U.S. personal saving rate's long stability (from the 1960s through the early 1980s), subsequent …

output changes. In the euro area investment is the predominant driver of output changes, while in the U.S. consumption shifts … investment, as the proximate cause for this fact, the source of the consumption difference remains a puzzle. JEL Classification … several potential explanations for it. While the evidence seems to point at differences in consumption responses, rather than …

Based on the households' utility maximisation, a closed form approximation of the consumption function is derived and … the deep parameters of the consumption function are estimated using aggregate euro area data. The novel element in our … lot of information on future income changes, but that also lagged consumption, through habit formation, plays an important …

Two remarkable features of the Australian economy over recent years have been strong growth in private consumption … expenditure and household wealth. This paper examines the relationship between consumption and wealth in an effort to better … understand aggregate consumption behaviour. We find a reasonably robust steady-state relationship between non …

This paper addresses the question of how changes in stock market wealth and housing wealth affect consumption … stock market wealth. We estimate the link between consumption and the components of wealth using panel-data estimation … housing wealth and stock market wealth have a significant effect on Australian consumption. We estimate that a permanent …