The effect of wealth on consumption is an issue of longstanding interest to economists. Analysts believe that … impact of changes in wealth on household consumption and the overall macroeconomy. There is an extensive existing literature …

Carroll and Kimball (1996) show that the consumption function for an agent with time-separable, isoelastic preferences … always exists a distribution of income risk such that consumption function is not concave in wealth. I also derive suffi … cient conditions guaranteeing that the consumption function is concave if the agent has preferences for late resolution of …

the aggregate consumption to income ratio. By standard intertemporal budget constraint logic, this ratio is linked to … expectations of future income and consumption growth rates. We investigate whether these expectations suffice to explain the shifts … in the consumption-income ratio that occur during disaster periods or whether, on the other hand, consumers become more …

literature on household saving behavior in Japan (with emphasis on the author's own past research) to shed light on whether or … the age structure of the population on the saving rate, the saving behavior of retired households, saving motives, the …

estimate a structural model of life-cycle consumption and credit use in which credit cards can be used for payments …

fully attend to consumption in all periods but fail to attend to some future lumpy expenditure opportunities. This asymmetry … reminders may increase saving, and that reminders will be more effective when they increase the salience of a specific …

lifetime resources, on the current consumption and wealth accumulation of employees affected by the reform. In line with …

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. The …

families prefer to buy at an early stage of the cycle all the desired stock of durable goods, in order to smooth consumption of …