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The life-cycle theory of saving behavior (Modigliani, 1988) suggests that humans strive towards an equal intertemporal distribution of wealth. However, behavioral life-cycle theory (Shefrin & Thaler, 1988) proposes that people use self control heuristics to postpone wealth until later in life....
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We estimate the elasticity of intertemporal substitution (EIS) - the elasticity of expected consumption growth with … Consumer Expectations (SCE). This dataset is unique, since it includes consumers' expectations of both consumption growth and … subjective version of the consumption Euler equation, without having to take a stand on the process of expectation formation. Our …
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. Consumption-based tests such as the Euler equation test are commonly used. These tests, however, are derived under restrictive …
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The debate on the risks and benefits of the globalisation of international capital markets has focused on the volume and the volatility of the main capital flows ? foreign direct investment (FDI), portfolio investment, and foreign bank lending. Financial transfers in the form of worker...
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