housing crash from 2006 to 2011 and its implications for aggregate and cross-sectional consumption during the Great Recession … consumption. Balance sheets act as a transmission mechanism from housing to consumption that depends on gross portfolio positions … and the leverage distribution. Low interest rate policies accelerate the recovery in housing and consumption …

spending on consumer spending. Our consumption data come from household-level retail purchases in Nielsen and auto purchases … spending by $0.29. We translate the regional consumption responses to an aggregate fiscal multiplier using a multi-region, New … multiplier, a result that distinguishes our incomplete markets model from models with complete markets. The aggregate consumption …

Using a structural VAR analysis, we document that an increase in government purchases raises private consumption, total … monetary policy rule, the real interest rate. Consumption increases as a result. …