We use the standard two-good version of the life cycle/permanent income model in analyzing the intratemporal and intertemporal aspect of food and non-food expenditure in Japan. The empirical dilemma in identifying and estimating the parameters governing the intertemporal elasticity of...

In this paper, we investigate the importance of financial shocks for the Canadian business cycle employing the financial friction DSGE framework following Bernanke, Gertler, and Gilchrist (1999) with an extension of a small-open economy feature. In particular, we explored the importance of an...

In this paper, we propose a new empirical method in testing for the existence of liquidity constraint utilizing the concept of Cross-Euler equation. The Cross-Euler equation represents the optimal consumption pattern of a good in the current period to another good at a future period. It can be...

This paper demonstrates the concavity of the consumption function of infinitely living households under liquidity constraints who are not prudent - i.e. with a quadratic utility. The concavity of the consumption function is closely related to the 3-convexity of the value function.