consumption-saving behavior. We construct a novel consumption-saving model where the household must infer the persistent component … marginal propensity to consume because the short run covariance between income growth and consumption growth increases when … can be identified from panel data on income and consumption. Finally, we estimate a high degree of knowledge in the Panel …

This paper studies consumption and savings decisions of Danish households before and during the financial crisis as … consumption ratios immediately in response to the financial crisis, net savers have increased their consumption ratios to pre … housing wealth, suggesting that collateral effects may play a role. The MPC is asymmetric; households adjust their consumption …

distinguishing between consumption theories. Asking households about their intended spending under various scenarios, we find that 1 …, suggesting it is unlikely that short-term credit constraints drive high propensities to consume. Furthermore, people do cut … somewhat forward-looking. A calibrated two-asset life-cycle precautionary savings model can account for these features of …

theoretical prediction of a simple model, determines a much lower amount of savings and wealth accumulation and therefore a lower … degree of insurance. This, in turn, contributes to persistent racial differentials in life-cycle consumption.Starting from … the same position in the consumption distribution Blacks end up in a lower percentile than Whites after a few decades …

With 20 years of PSID data, we document persistent racial differentials in life-cycle consumption dynamics. Starting … from similar positions in the consumption distribution Blacks end up in lower percentiles than Whites. Education, income … the Whites to prevent them from falling in the lower part of the consumption distribution. …

We document relevant racial differences in the degree consumption insurance against shocks: Blacks appear to be less …

profit function rationalizing consumption, labor supply and savings is specified, estimated and used to test commonly … maintained separability hypotheses. Both consumption- labor and time separability are rejected. Cross-price Frisch elasticities … are found not to equal zero and this in turns affects all estimates of consumption, labor supply and saving elasticities …