the period 1980q1-2011q4. That is, income is more often found to predict consumption and saving than the converse. Our … consumption and by exploring the direction of Granger causality between the two series. We also give evidence that house price … changes played a role in the US income and consumption dynamics, before, during and after the Great Recession. …

the period 1980q1-2011q4. That is, income is more often found to predict consumption and saving than the converse. Our … consumption and by exploring the direction of Granger causality between the two series. We also give evidence that house price … changes played a role in the US income and consumption dynamics, before, during and after the Great Recession. …

This paper elucidates the influence of stock market volatility on U.S. consumption using pooled mean group (PMG … market volatility on consumption are robust to the lag order, lag selection criteria, and outliers compared with the mean … group (MG) and the dynamic fixed effect (DFE) methods. I find that stock market volatility reduces total consumption …

We estimate the degree of 'stickiness' in aggregate consumption growth (sometimes interpreted as reflecting consumption … habits) for thirteen advanced economies. We find that, after controlling for measurement error, consumption growth has a high … degree of autocorrelation, with a stickiness parameter of about 0.7 on average across countries. The sticky-consumption …

current account without excessive consumption volatility …

The present paper tests for the existence of multicointegration between real per capita private consumption expenditure … income and consumption expenditure on the one hand, and the stock of consumers' wealth, which can be considered as cumulative … multicointegrating relations and find supporting evidence for the existence of multicointegration in US consumption data. …

This paper sheds new light on the interactions between business cycles and the consumption distribution. We use … Consumer Expenditure Survey data and a factor model to characterize the cyclical dynamics of the consumption distribution. We … first establish that our approach is able to closely match business cycle fluctuations of consumption from the National …

We use data from the 2009 Internet Survey of the Health and Retirement Study to examine the consumption impact of …

We investigate the relevance of aggregate and consumer-specific income uncertainty for aggregate consumption changes in … the US over the period 1952-2001. Theoretically, the effect of income risk on consumption changes is decomposed into an … that aggregate income risk explains a negligible fraction of the variance of aggregate consumption changes. A more …