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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 …
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This paper describes the transmission of income inequality into consumption inequality and in so doing investigates the … degree of insurance to income shocks. It combines panel data on income from the PSID with consumption data from repeated CEX … found to play an important role in insuring permanent shocks. Adding durable expenditures to the consumption measure …
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Recent theoretical contributions have suggested consumption externalities, or peergroup effects, as a potential … intertemporal consumption choice is a completely open question. To shed some light on the issue, we derive an extension of the … standard life-cycle model that allows for consumption externalities. The analysis is complicated by the challenge of …
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Recent theoretical advances in consumption theory suggest that there may exist predictable consumption surges which, if … identify economic variables that might help improve the OECD's forecasts for Germany's consumption and GDP growth. …
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Since the beginnings of the eighties house prices in the Netherlands haveincreased steadily and considerably. In this paper we study the effect of this developmenton the demand for second mortgages and on the savings of Dutch households. We use the dataof the Dutch socio-economic panel for the...
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We measure how different the shapes of Engel curves are across 59 commodity groups. The same analysis is carried out for their derivatives and variances. While Engel curves possess a relatively homogeneous shape, significantly more heterogeneity is present in derivatives and when particular...
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