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 …

, the model cannot account for the low level of consumption (or high saving) as a proportion of income observed in the data …. An examination of provincial level consumption data suggests that the absence of channels for intranational consumption … risk sharing may be an important reason why the business-cycle model has trouble accounting for Chinese consumption and …

alternative fiscal policies on current consumption and saving. Studies to date have examined the response of current consumption … consumption smoothing is actually feasible. ESPlanner's saving and life insurance recommendations generate the smoothest possible … consumption/saving of low-income households for the simple reason their income tax liabilities are relatively small. And social …

the welfare loss of capital income taxation relative to the alternatives of taxing consumption and labor income.The second … technology of private investment. Government policies that discourage saving might make the Schumpeterian vision of a shift from … sharp decline in the net national saving rate-from over 8% of GDP in the U.S. in the 1970s to only 4.5% in the 1980s & from …

The paper revisits the investment simulation based on strategies exhibited by Generalized (m,2)-Zipf law to present an … particular length of words, we can see how wild historical fluctuations over time series data coped with the Zipf strategies. …

consumption or investment. In this way, aggregate demand would be maintained by substituting public consumption for private … consumption. A second alternative prescription was to reduce the private saving rate. Early Keynesians like Seymour Harris saw the …Three ways of averting "excess saving" have been emphasized in both theory and practice. The thrust of the Keynesian …

Has leisure increased over the last century? Standard measures of hours worked suggest that it has. In this paper, we … develop a comprehensive measure of non-leisure hours that includes market work, home production, commuting and schooling for …. Finally, leisure per capita is approximately the same now as it was in 1900 …