This is a short survey on consumption theory. Consumption is important to both fluctuation and growth. In addition …, consumption introduces some important issues involving financial markets and portfolio decisions. We will describe consumption … interaction between consumption decisions and portfolio choice is investigated in the third part of the paper. …

escape it: they are not free. For the lowest decile the share of high-frequency consumption goods is 60%. We show that the … households in the 1° decile of consumption recorded an inflation rate which, between 1999 and 2009, was 7 percentage points …: the share of households unable to ensure adequate food consumption, according to our measure, was 6.3% in 2007, increasing …

effect of ageing on the consumption of Italian households. Ageing has limited the increase in the propensity to spend … entirely attributable to the reduction of consumption within the age groups, determined by the negative income dynamics …