. We propose a novel consumption-savings model in which a consumer has a well-defined preference ordering over both … changes. We find that (i) the welfare cost of household-level consumption fluctuations may be overstated by 1.7 percentage …

Historically high household debt in several economies is calling for a deleveraging, but according to some economists …, this paper finds evidence of a negative relationship between changes of household debt-to-income ratios and saving rates … suggest that the economic cost associated with household deleveraging may be overestimated and motivate a deleveraging via …

. We propose a novel consumption-savings model in which a consumer has a well-defined preference ordering over both … changes. We find that (i) the welfare cost of household-level consumption fluctuations may be overstated by 1.7 percentage …