Attanasio, Orazio P. - In: Handbook of macroeconomics : volume 1, part B, (pp. 741-812). 1999
Consumption is the largest component of GDP. Since the 1950s, the life cycle and the permanent income models have constituted the main analytical tools to the study of consumption behaviour, both at the micro and at the aggregate level. Since the late 1970s the literature has focused on versions...
