Carroll and Kimball (1996) show that the consumption function for an agent with time-separable, isoelastic preferences … always exists a distribution of income risk such that consumption function is not concave in wealth. I also derive suffi … cient conditions guaranteeing that the consumption function is concave if the agent has preferences for late resolution of …

distinguishing between consumption theories. Asking households about their intended spending under various scenarios, we find that 1 …

estimates the impact of the Covid-19 crisis on consumption. The panel provides, each month, household-specific indicators of the … concern causes a significant reduction in nondurable consumption. The paper also explores the potential impact on consumption … of government interventions and of another wave of Covid-19, using household-level consumption adjustments to scenarios …

. We apply the estimator to the 2008 tax rebate and household consumption data, exploiting the randomized timing of … disbursements. We find a considerable degree of heterogeneity in MPCs, which varies by consumption good, and provide evidence on … results suggest that the partial equilibrium consumption response to the stimulus was twice as large as what is implied by …

how subjective uncertainty is related to consumption behavior. Using unique data from the Survey of Consumer Expectations … uncertainty. In the workhorse consumption-savings model, augmented with risk heterogeneity, MPCs decline with earnings uncertainty …

aggregate consumption for longer. …