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Our new model of consumption-based habit formation preferences generates loglinear, homoskedastic macroeconomic … rate takes the form of an exactly loglinear consumption Euler equation, commonly assumed in New Keynesian models …
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of these is the large and growing literature on precautionary saving that examines how consumption growth and saving … expected consumption growth and uncertainty in consumption growth, with a slope coefficient that is a function of the … (and the coefficient of relative risk aversion) from regressions of consumption growth on uncertainty in consumption growth …
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of these is the large and growing literature on precautionary saving that examines how consumption growth and saving … expected consumption growth and uncertainty in consumption growth, with a slope coefficient that is a function of the … (and the coefficient of relative risk aversion) from regressions of consumption growth on uncertainty in consumption growth …
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The preference to receive benefits as early as possible and delay costs as much as possible is natural for people. That means a positive discount rate in the intertemporal choice, which is a common assumption in economics. However, as research in behavioral economics proves, in certain...
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Both economists and psychologists are interested in understanding decision making under uncertainty. Yet, they rely on different concepts to analyse human behaviour: Economists use economic preference parameters rooted in utility theory, while psychologists use personality traits to describe...
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Purpose The relevance of present consumption bias on personal finance has been confirmed in several studies and has …-control, adherence to healthy habits (e.g. exercising or dieting), procrastination tendencies or savings. The purpose of this paper is to … authors find the optimal consumption levels in the perfect-information benchmark by backward induction. They then proceed to …
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