This paper examines the optimal consumption and investment problem for a "large" investor, whose portfolio choices affect the instantaneous expected returns on the traded assets.

We examine the intertemporal optimal consumption and investment problem in a continuous-time economy with a divisible durable good. Consumption services are assumed to be proportional to the stock of the good held and adjustment of the stock is costly, in that it involves the payment of a...

Previous tests for liquidity constraints using consuption Euler equations have frequently split the sample on the basis of wealth, arguing that low-wealth consumers are likely tp be constrained. We propose alternative tests using different and more direct information on borrowing constraints...