In this paper we analyse the relationship between unemployment and consumption. We study this relationship with panel … empirical results indicate that an increase in the duration of unemployment spells of male household heads is associated with … smaller consumption losses in Spanish and Italian households. We discuss this finding in the light of different market and …

If some consumers are liquidity-constrained, aggregate consumption should be ‘excessively sensitive’ to credit … United Kingdom and the United States, we find a substantial impact of credit aggregates on consumption in all countries … considered. Moreover, the borrowing/lending wedge is a significant determinant of consumption in Canada, Japan and the United …

A method of testing the relative importance for consumption of full insurance behaviour and changes in income is … proposed and estimated using data across Canadian provinces. The focus of the estimation is less on whether or not the full … consumption. Both types of behaviour are found to be statistically significant, but the full insurance model is found to explain …

This paper sheds new light on the interactions between business cycles and the consumption distribution. We use CEX … consumption data and a factor model to characterize the cyclical dynamics of the consumption distribution. We first establish that … our approach is able to closely match business cycle fluctuations of consumption from the National Account. We then study …

. We study private consumption choices focusing on former East Germany, where differential access to Western television was … significant impact of previous exposure to Western television on aggregate consumption levels. However, exposure to Western … broadcasts affects the composition of consumption, biasing choices in favor of categories of goods with high intensity of pre …

transitory shocks? The implications for consumption and welfare depend crucially on the answer to this question. We use CEX … repeated cross-section data on consumption and income to decompose idiosyncratic changes in income into predictable life … evolution of consumption and income inequality well and delivers two main results. First, we find that permanent changes in …

working relatively few (weekly) hours, for instance, suffer from a spending shock of the type we analyzed: their consumption …

In Portugal real wage flexibility, at the macroeconomic level, is noticeably higher, while unemployment duration is … lower, when compared to Spain. This suggests that the hardship of being unemployed is higher in Portugal. Unemployment … benefits and family insurance, which are the main buffer against unemployment and have played different roles in both countries …

We use data from the 2009 Internet Survey of the Health and Retirement Study to examine the consumption impact of … wealth shocks and unemployment during the Great Recession in the US. We find that many households experienced large capital …