The effect of income inequality on savings and consumption has remained an open empirical issue despite several decades … of research. Results obtained in this study indicate that income inequality and private consumption are both I(1 …) nonstationary variables that are cointegrated, and inequality has had a negative effect on private consumption in Central …

financial balance sheets of population and companies. Using panel data covering 60 countries for 1980-2009 period, the paper is …

savings using a panel of 18 developed countries for the period 1980-2005. We weave two strands of literature: the first strand …

to clone than the magnetic stripe card. Using a bi-annual balanced panel data of over one hundred Italian banks, in this …

In this paper we analyse the consequences of changes in the consumption patterns on unemployment through an … multiequational model, in which we estimate a consumption function, an investment function and an unemployment rate equation, using a … panel of 17 Spanish regions. This model is characterised by its dynamics and the cross equation relationships. After …

. I find potent support in favor of nonhomotheticity in aggregate consumption data, with nondurable goods being …

Consumption expenditure is an important component of aggregate demand. Recent theoretical and empirical studies search … for possible Keynesian / Non Keynesian fiscal impacts on household consumption decisions. Besides providing insight to … determinants of consumption decisions, these studies also provide guide to policy solutions to high and risky current account …

that these predictable changes in returns should affect current consumption. This paper presents a new framework linking … consumption, income, and observable assets to expectations of future asset returns. Relative to previous work on this topic, the … unobservable variables and not requiring estimation of unknown parameters to arrive at a forecasting variable. …

This paper attempts a broad appraisal of the literature on macro consumption function in Islamic economics. It starts … consumption in economics as also to interest being shown in the subject in other social sciences. This inter-disciplinary approach … seeks to detach consumption from income and links it to wealth. It also brings in environmental and ethical concerns into …