Understand the evolution of the size and allocation of household savings throughout the life cycle is of fundamental … form of savings with significant participation in personal budget. In addition, credit market imperfections make … families prefer to buy at an early stage of the cycle all the desired stock of durable goods, in order to smooth consumption of …

(approximated) private income elasticity close to 0.4 and credit and interest (semi) elasticities of household consumption close to …This paper presents new econometric specifications for the quarterly behavior of the aggregate consumption of Brazilian …

Understand the evolution of the size and allocation of household savings throughout the life cycle is of fundamental … form of savings with significant participation in personal budget. In addition, credit market imperfections make … families prefer to buy at an early stage of the cycle all the desired stock of durable goods, in order to smooth consumption of …

Brazilian food-consumption functions estimated for the Northeast, separating metropolitan and rural areas, and based on … are necessary for evaluating the gain in consumption due to food-assistance programs. Price responsiveness, which …