loss. We find that an unexpected job loss leads to a negative consumption response, while this effect is muted for workers … with ex-ante job loss expectations - consistent with the Permanent Income Hypothesis. The negative consumption response to … factor of the consumption response to a job loss. At the same time, we do not find a positive consumption response of workers …

Macroeconomic models often invoke consumption "habits" to explain the substantial persistence of macroeconomic … consumption growth. But a large literature has found no evidence of habits in the microeconomic datasets that measure the behavior … aggregate consumption growth reflects consumers' imperfect attention to aggregate shocks. Our proposed degree of (macro …

consumption commitment for most households { their monthly rent or mortgage payment. I find that non-durable and food spending … weekly, biweekly and monthly income streams but the same timing of rent/mortgage payments have very similar consumption …

We estimate the elasticity of intertemporal substitution (EIS) - the elasticity of expected consumption growth with … Consumer Expectations (SCE). This dataset is unique, since it includes consumers' expectations of both consumption growth and … subjective version of the consumption Euler equation, without having to take a stand on the process of expectation formation. Our …

Consumption growth is predictable, a basic violation of the permanent-income hypothesis. This paper examines three … possible explanations: rule-of-thumb behavior, in which households allow consumption to track per-period income flows rather … than permanent income; habit persistence; and non-separability in preferences over consumption and leisure. The data appear …

data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we estimate the causal effect of changes in reference consumption, defined as … the consumption level of all households who are perceived to be richer, on household savings and consumption. When … controlling for own income, an increase in reference consumption of 100 euros leads to an increase in consumption of 10 to 25 …

proposed. These expectation adjustments generate highly heterogenous consumption responses to income windfalls: many households … previous explanations for these effects, including consumption adjustment cost and liquidity constraints. At the aggregate … level, consumption is less sensitive to expansionary policies during recessions and its excess smoothness varies …

In this paper we estimate the relevance of habits versus interpersonal comparisons for the consumption behavior of U ….S. households. We exploit information from the recently released consumption expenditure data of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics … (PSID) covering the time span from 1999 to 2009. We find that both habits, measured as lagged consumption, and envy motives …

We set up and solve a rich life-cycle model of household decisions involving consumption of both perishable goods and …, and portfolio constraints. The model features habit formation for housing consumption, which leads to optimal decisions …) that perishable consumption is more sensitive to wealth and income shocks than housing consumption, and (iv) that non …

We solve a rich life-cycle model of household decisions involving consumption of perishable goods and housing services …, habit formation for housing consumption, stochastic labor income, stochastic house prices, home renting and owning, stock …-dependent housing expenditure share, (iii) non-housing consumption being significantly more sensitive to wealth and income shocks than …