consumption commitment for most households { their monthly rent or mortgage payment. I find that non-durable and food spending … weekly, biweekly and monthly income streams but the same timing of rent/mortgage payments have very similar consumption …

This paper focuses on whether households facing economic scarcity tend to change consumption priorities as measured by … feast-related goods, indicating a "feast and famine" consumption strategy. Nevertheless, spending on food with label claims …

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 …

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 …

, but neither microeconomics nor consumption sociology even discuss it as a motive for consumption. After defining some key … terms, 'efficiency consumption' is introduced theoretically as a means for securing an income (consumer investment). It is … voluntary only for pioneers: Via social diffusion processes innovative consumption goods are transformed from a welcome …

realizations is front loaded, a closed form aggregate consumption function with CRRA preferences is derived. To have a closed form … life-time wealth and then the optimal consumption path. The derived model captures precautionary saving, which is dependent ….S. consumption data. …