This paper tests whether the Ricardian Equivalence proposition holds in a life cycle consumption laboratory experiment … not hold in general. Our results suggest that taxation has a significant and strong impact on consumption choice. Over the … life cycle, a tax relief increases consumption on average by about 22% of the tax rebate. A tax increase causes consumption …

Economic convergence of the new member states (NMS) of the EU towards the old EU countries (EU-15), not only in terms …, consumption, and labour mobility behaviour to address several other issues like welfare and sustainability in terms of foreign … indebtedness. At the same time we evaluate the impact of convergence on the EU-15 countries also, by endogenising offshoring and …

is quite striking: consumption-led growth - either in terms of private or public or total consumption - leads to slower … of the past growth period (lag window). It is only that the more often the past is characterized by consumption …

is quite striking: consumption-led growth - either in terms of private or public or total consumption - leads to slower … of the past growth period (lag window). It is only that the more often the past is characterized by consumption …