Two structural cointegrated models of consumption, labor income and wealth are specified and estimated with US data using the approach of Pagan and Pesaran (2008). We find that consumption and labor income are weakly exogenous in the estimated reduced form model and show that this imposes...

Large variations in house prices can lead to significant changes in the level of household wealth and this may affect household consumption. Using Lettau and Ludvigson's [Lettau, M., Ludvigson, S.C., 2004. Understanding trend and cycle in asset values: reevaluating the wealth effect on...

Many macroeconometric models are built to understand business cycles. However, the methods applied to assess them are rarely of the form that one learns whether they provide a good explanation of cycle characteristics. In this paper we review and apply techniques that do this for models with...