consumption via managing inflation expectations based on the Euler equation. Unconventional fiscal policy uses trivial … announcements of future consumer-price increases to boost inflation expectations and consumption expenditure on impact. Instead …

-economy income convergence. Where RCK predicts partial income and consumption convergence between open economies Solow predicts full … convergence. This paper presents, by a small modification of the savings behavior in the Solow model, a framework that matches RCK … country size; that income growth will be a U-shaped function of initial income thus creating differentiated convergence; and …

This paper quantifies the extent of heterogeneity in consumption responses to changes in real interest rates and house … portfolios, observed in the Household Finance and Consumption Survey (HFCS) for these countries. We then show that the … heterogeneity in household finances implies that responses of consumption to changes in the real interest rate and in house prices …

Unconventional fiscal policies incentivize households to accelerate consumption by generating future consumer price … study the causal effect of unconventional fiscal policies on consumption expenditure via the inflation-expectations channel … intratemporal substitution from non-durable to durable consumption. …

the period 1980q1-2011q4. That is, income is more often found to predict consumption and saving than the converse. Our … consumption and by exploring the direction of Granger causality between the two series. We also give evidence that house price … changes played a role in the US income and consumption dynamics, before, during and after the Great Recession. …