The present paper investigates the relationship between consumption, labour income and household wealth in Australia within the inter-temporal consumption framework developed by Lettau and Ludvigson (2001). We first test for a long-run relationship among these series and then investigate whether...

This paper examines the relationship between consumption and wealth in Australia. We find a steady-state relationship between non-durables consumption, labour income and aggregate household wealth for the period 1988-1999. We also find that changes in both non-financial and financial assets have...

Two structural cointegrated models of consumption, labor income and wealth are specified and estimated with US data using the approach of Pagan and Pesaran (2008). We find that consumption and labor income are weakly exogenous in the estimated reduced form model and show that this imposes...