How does the sustainable level of consumption depend on productivity growth and the size and growth rate of the …) intrinsic value. I show how the maximum sustainable consumption-wealth ratio depends on expected rates of productivity and … population. For plausible parameter values, the sustainable consumption-wealth ratio is well below the optimal ratio that …

private-sector consumption in the high-budget-deficit economy of Israel during the first half of the 1980s. The paper develops … and estimates an intertemporal optimizing model of consumption choice by finite-lived individuals. The evidence supports …

that the distribution of measured consumption growth rates should be independent of variables that are exogenous to the … individual consumer when we allow for measurement error in consumption and for variation in preferences. This proposition is … tested by cross sectional regressions of individual consumption growth on a variety of variables that should not be …

Macroeconomic research on consumption has been influenced profoundly by rational expectations. First, rational … expectations together with the hypothesis of constant expected real interest rates implies that consumption should evolve as a … its failure. Three branches of the literature have developed. The first relies on the durability of consumption to explain …

We document some key facts about aggregate consumption and its subcomponents over time. We then document the behavior … of some important determinants of consumption, such as consumers' expectations about their future income, and changes in … consumption during the Great Recession can be explained by the observed drops in wealth and income expectations …

We view sustainability as a requirement that welfare should not be expected to decline over time. We impose this … requirement as a prior constraint on the consumption-savings-investment problem, and study its implications for saving, risky … sustainable time preference rate and on the sustainable consumption-wealth ratio, which we show must lie between the riskless rate …

sustainability. Disclosure of nontraditional debt would imply significant welfare gains for the recipient countries but would reduce … its sustainability. We discuss the implications of nontraditional lending on standard assumptions of sovereign debt models …

was certified in March 2017 for fiscal years 2017-18 to 2026-27. Second, we perform a Debt Sustainability Analysis (DSA … that the island's current debt position is unsustainable, and compute the necessary debt relief to restore sustainability …