This paper examines trends in household consumption and saving behaviour in each of the last three recessions in the UK …

We use direct evidence on credit constraints to study their importance for household consumption growth and for welfare …. We distentangle the direct effect on consumption growth of a currently binding credit constraints from the indirect … effect of a potentially binding credit constraint which generates consumption risk. Our data is focused on job losers. We …

The combination of credit constraints and indivisible consumption goods may induce some risk-averse individuals to …

We use direct evidence on credit constraints to study their importance for household consumption growth and for welfare …. We distentangle the direct effect on consumption growth of a currently binding credit constraint from the indirect effect … of a potentially binding credit constraint that generates consumption risk. Our data are focused on job losers. We find …

This paper examines trends in household consumption and saving behaviour in each of the last three recessions in the UK …

The combination of credit constraints and indivisible consumption goods may induce some riskaverse individuals to play …

Household borrowing and spending rise with house prices, particularly for leveraged households, but household spending … is not consumption. We propose an alternative borrow-to-invest motive by which house price gains affect household … when house prices rise. We test this motive by comparing responses in different categories of spending across more and less …

Household expenditure data is an important input into the study of consumption and savings behaviour and of living … expenditure data collected from the same individuals. Under the assumption that the diary measures are "true" food consumption …, this allows us to observe errors in measures of recall food consumption directly, and to study the properties of those …

In many research areas it is desirable to have information on household total expenditure ("consumption"). We draw … evidence from several sources on the usefulness of recall consumption questions. We conclude that valid information can be …