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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005561778
the origin of the aggregate volatility reduction. We show that states with relatively high concentrations in the durable-goods …
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In this paper we provide international evidence on the issue of whether the optimizing IS equation is more stable than a backward-looking alternative. The international evidence consist of estimates of IS equations on quarterly data for the UK and Australia, both for the full sample of the last...
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"This paper provides an overview, using extensive documentary material, of developments in U.K. macroeconomic policy in the last half-century. Rather than focusing on well-known recent changes in policy arrangements (such as the introduction of inflation targeting in 1992 or central bank...
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El tema de la inflación ha sido uno de los más debatidos en los últimos meses. Los incrementos de precios registrados en el primer trimestre de 2005 han avivado la discusión. Este trabajo muestra que el problema está lejos de estar fuera de control y que determinadas medidas de política...
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-theoretic environment with divisible money and goods. We find that in such a setting, a positive feedback between work and shopping effort …This paper investigates the relationship between money growth, inflation, and productive activity in a general … equilibrium model where search frictions motivate the transactions role of money. The use of a multiple matching technique, where …
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In this paper we examine the link between wage inequality and consumption inequality using a life cycle model that … incorporates household consumption and family labour supply decisions. We derive analytical expressions based on approximations for … the dynamics of consumption, hours, and earnings of two earners in the presence of correlated wage shocks, non …
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This paper explores the positive relationship betwen home prices and household spending by following a panel of Australian households over the period 2003 to 2010. There are three hypotheses put forth in the literature to explain this relationship: (1) increases in home prices raise spending via...
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