We show that countries that take on more international risk are rewarded with higher expected consumption growth …. International risk is defined as the beta of a country’s consumption growth with world consumption growth. High-beta countries hold … is negatively correlated with expected consumption growth. Therefore, uninsured shocks affect not only current growth …

We collect 2,735 estimates of the elasticity of intertemporal substitution in consumption from 169 published studies … participation substitute a larger fraction of consumption intertemporally in response to changes in expected asset returns. Micro …

Using VAR analysis on US data, we show that unanticipated fiscal expansions boost private consumption and business … crowding-in of both consumption and entry can be generated only under very specific assumptions. In a static model with full … such that future profits are high enough to generate entry. However, consumption falls for conventional parameter values …

the aggregate consumption to income ratio. By standard intertemporal budget constraint logic, this ratio is linked to … expectations of future income and consumption growth rates. We investigate whether these expectations suffice to explain the shifts … in the consumption-income ratio that occur during disaster periods or whether, on the other hand, consumers become more …

consumption, as captured by the long-run marginal propensity to consume from financial wealth (mpcw). The international evidence … changes in both consumption and wealth. Using a suitable panel technique, it is found that the hypothesis of a common long …

on consumption. Using modern panel data econometric techniques and quarterly data for the period 1990:1-2008:2, we show … countries; (iii) housing wealth effects have increased for Asian coutries in recent years; and (iv) consumption reacts stronger … to negative than to positive shocks in housing and financial wealth. -- Wealth effects ; consumption ; emerging markets …