I use a consumption-based test to examine the importance of income constraints and the degree of capital mobility … financial markets are highly integrated, but that the consumption behavior of a significant part of the Nordic population is … constrained by income. There is no evidence that financial deregulation altered the consumption behavior of households or …

savings. The purpose of this paper is to provide additional insights into the individual household's consumption decision and …During the last decade most western economies have experienced large and unexpected fluctuations in consumption and … thereby increase the knowledge of what governs these important macro variables. A consumption equation is estimated on Swedish …

tax. The analysis is performed in a model economy with two types of individuals and two types of consumption goods. The … from the total consumption of the dirty good. It turns out that the optimal tax structure depends on the complementarity or …