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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Contrary to the implications of economic theory, consumption inequality in the US did not react to the increases in … consumption is imputed into the Panel Study of Income Dynamics to create panel data on income and consumption for the period 1980 …. Together, these phenomena can explain the lack of an increase in consumption inequality. …

response to the forecasts, extrapolate to expectations about their personal economic circumstances and adjust their consumption … exposure to macroeconomic risk, consistent with sticky information models in which people are inattentive, but understand how …

response to the forecasts, extrapolate to expectations about their personal economic circumstances and adjust their consumption … exposure to macroeconomic risk, consistent with sticky information models in which people are inattentive, but understand how …