Federici, Alessandro; Montalbano, Pierluigi - Department of Economics, School of Business, Management … - 2012
macroeconomic volatility, consumption behaviour and welfare for a large sample of countries. Differing from previous works, our … empirical strategy is grounded on consumption and takes account of the role of persistence in consumption/income volatility. Our … main conclusion is twofold: on one hand, we determine that aggregate volatility exerts, on average and ceteris paribus, a …