standard permanent income model with intertemporally separable utility: the sensitivity of consumption to lagged consumer … sentiment and to predictable changes in current income I show that in a habit formation model the sensitivity of consumption … growth to predicted income can be to a large extent reinterpreted as a sluggish response of consumption to news Moreover the …

This paper studies why investors buy dividend-paying assets and how they time their consumption accordingly. We combine … administrative bank data linking customers' consumption transactions and income to detailed portfolio data and survey responses on … financial behavior. We find that private consumption is excessively sensitive to dividend income. Investors across wealth …