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consumption changes in the US over the period 1952-2001. Theoretically, the effect of labour income risk on consumption changes is … consumption changes. A more important part of aggregate consumption changes is explained by the unobserved component. The …
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Most measures of vulnerability are a-theoretic and essentially static. In this paper we use a stochastic Ramsey model to find a household's optimal welfare and we measure vulnerability as the shortfall from the welfare attained if the household consumed permanently at the poverty line. The...
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The ratio of consumption to total household wealth (i.e., tangible assets plus unobserved human wealth) is commonly … relationship between consumption, assets and earnings (i.e., the variable "cay"). The evidence in favor of a stable cointegrating … unobserved component model applied to US data over the period 1951Q4-2016Q4. The regression of consumption on assets and earnings …
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Every three years, Indonesia fields simultaneously two nationwide surveys which collect consumption data. Onecollects … consumption using 23 questions, the other using 320 questions. Based on a repeated experiment inwhich the two questionnaires were … aggregation yields a lowerconsumption measure, and that the fraction of underestimation increases as consumption rises. A one …
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Since the beginnings of the eighties house prices in the Netherlands haveincreased steadily and considerably. In this paper we study the effect of this developmenton the demand for second mortgages and on the savings of Dutch households. We use the dataof the Dutch socio-economic panel for the...
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able to take into account consumption dynamics. In the model, households derive utility from consumption, and they relate … their purchase behavior to consumption planning. We illustrate our model for yogurt purchases, and show that our model …
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in consumption in five key sectors: tourism, hospitality, services, retail, and public transports. We identify a large …-term sectoral consumption shifts may occur. …
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