Fella, Giulio; Frache, Serafin; Koeniger, Winfried - 2017
information on consumption, income and wealth, to structurally estimate a buffer-stock saving model. We exploit the information … contained in the joint dynamics of income, consumption and wealth to quantify the degree of insurance against income risk … do not impose any model structure on the consumption process. This suggests that Italian households do not have access to …