transitory shocks? The implications for consumption and welfare depend crucially on the answer to this question. We use CEX … repeated cross-section data on consumption and income to decompose idiosyncratic changes in income into predictable life … evolution of consumption and income inequality well and delivers two main results. First, we find that permanent changes in …

consumption to a 'surprise' term in permanent income as well as past values of consumption growth. We can interpret this … income growth measuring the excess sensitivity of consumption with respect to income changes and thus the degree of liquidity … for the asymmetry in the income-consumption path for German regions both with respect to the long and short run adjustment …