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 …

This paper studies the gain from using money as an indicator when monetary policy in made under data uncertainty. We … state of the economy. Money reveals some of the private sector’s information to the policymaker, especially if there is a … forward looking element in money demand. We show that observing money can considerably reduce the loss that is due to …

ability of money-based forecasts relative to a simple random walk benchmark model was high at medium-term forecasting horizons …

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 …

change in asset or portfolio return affects household’s consumption growth, using a sample of households from the Consumer … Expenditure Survey. Since changes in housing return can affect consumption of households over time, we investigate whether the … affects consumption growth, and housing is an important asset to account for in the household portfolio. …

’s consumption growth. The estimates obtained using real after-tax composite return are about 0.15-0.3 and are more robust to linear … and nonlinear estimations, different consumption measures, and various time periods than those obtained by using …

This paper adds to the literature on wealth effects on consumption by disentangling financial wealth effects from … of all wealth variables on euro area consumption is significant and positive in most specifications for both datasets ….6 cents per euro of financial wealth spent on consumption according to the estimations with euro area aggregate data. However …