This paper investigates the impact of financial liberalization on the relationship between consumption and total wealth … where financial liberalization, by signalling a future reduction in the incomplete markets component of consumption growth …, increases the current consumption-wealth ratio. From the model, an aggregate long-run relationship is derived between …

information on consumption, income and wealth, to structurally estimate a buffer-stock saving model. We exploit the information … contained in the joint dynamics of income, consumption and wealth to quantify the degree of insurance against income risk. The …

information on consumption, income and wealth, to structurally estimate a buffer-stock saving model. We exploit the information … contained in the joint dynamics of income, consumption and wealth to quantify the degree of insurance against income risk … do not impose any model structure on the consumption process. This suggests that Italian households do not have access to …

estimate a structural model of life-cycle consumption and credit use in which credit cards can be used for payments …