The standard approach to modelling consumption/saving problems is to assume that the decisionmaker is solving a dynamic … stochastic optimization problem However under realistic descriptions of utility and uncertainty the optimal consumption/saving …

women) can help explain measurable outcomes such as marriage formation, intra-marriage distribution of consumption goods …

It is sometimes argued that more advertising raises consumption which in turn stimulates output and so economic growth … advertising does not Granger-cause growth but Granger-causes consumption. Consumption, in turn, Granger-causes GDP growth. The … data imply that the immediate impact of more advertising on consumption is positive. However, the long-run effect is …

In this paper we investigate the size of the consumption drop at retirement in Italy. We use micro data on food and … total non-durable household spending covering the period 1993-2004, and evaluate the change in consumption that accompanies … decision. We take a regression discontinuity approach, and make the identifying assumption that consumption would be the same …

Through certainty equivalent consumption (CE) measures, we show that dispersion of current earnings, expenditures, and … consumption, as well as uncertainty and demographic composition. Rising inequality has offset about 1/4 of the welfare gains from … higher consumption, with most of the losses accruing after 2000. …