Girardin, Eric; Sarno, Lucio; Taylor, Mark P. - In: Empirical Economics 25 (2000) 2, pp. 351-368
This paper examines the effect of financial deregulation on consumption expenditure in France during the period 1970-1993. A nonlinear model for consumption which allows for liquidity constraints through a time-varying parameter dependent on a proxy for financial deregulation is estimated using...