, intertemporal lifecycle consumption optimization problem and the effect of revealing social information on past average consumption … in solving for the optimal consumption path. Instead, we find that the provision of social information on past average … levels of consumption results in a greater deviation of consumption from both the unconditional and the conditionally optimal …

We investigate the effect of positional goods (goods for which one's consumption relative to others’ matters) on saving …, based on results from a life-cycle consumption/saving experiment. In a Group treatment, we allow inter-personal comparisons … by assigning subjects to groups and displaying rankings based partly on consumption. A baseline Individual treatment is …

change in asset or portfolio return affects household’s consumption growth, using a sample of households from the Consumer … Expenditure Survey. Since changes in housing return can affect consumption of households over time, we investigate whether the … affects consumption growth, and housing is an important asset to account for in the household portfolio. …

’s consumption growth. The estimates obtained using real after-tax composite return are about 0.15-0.3 and are more robust to linear … and nonlinear estimations, different consumption measures, and various time periods than those obtained by using …

pecuniary externalities. Absent institutional constraints like prices and budgets, the optimal consumption rule would have … annuitize, the growth rate of marginal utility will be the discount rate minus the interest rate, resulting in a consumption … profile that is too flat. Accidental bequests transfer wealth from the old to the young, steepening the consumption profile …

the German Socio-Economic Panel, we estimate the effect of reference consumption, defined as the consumption level of all … households who are perceived to be richer, on household consumption. When controlling for own income as well as unobserved … individual and local area heterogeneity, a 1% increase in reference consumption leads households to raise own consumption by …

consumption and aggregate capital accumulation by solving an overlapping generations model with intragenerational heterogeneity …

We use CEX repeated cross-section data on consumption and income, to evaluate the nature of increased income inequality … for cyclical behavior of consumption risk, casting doubt on Constantinides and Duffie's (1995) explanation for the equity …