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 …

This note studies a form of a utility function of consumption with habit and leisure that (a) is compatible with long …

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 …