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 …

costs of search with its marginal benefit. The consumer can maximize the utility of his consumption-leisure choice with …

costs of search with its marginal benefit. The consumer can maximize the utility of his consumption-leisure choice with …

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 …

The relationship between temporary terms of trade shocks and household saving in developing countries is examined. It … is first shown that, from a theoretical standpoint, this relationship is ambiguous: private saving may rise or fall in … intra temporal elasticity of substitution between traded and nontraded goods. Empirical estimates of these two parameters …

what drives saving in Latin America. The studies cover Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru, Uruguay, and Venezuela and … span a variety of topics ranging from assessing the impact of financial liberalization on saving to determining the role of … terms of trade shocks. Many of the studies also employ new data sources, that provide a better understanding of the saving …