proposed. These expectation adjustments generate highly heterogenous consumption responses to income windfalls: many households … previous explanations for these effects, including consumption adjustment cost and liquidity constraints. At the aggregate … level, consumption is less sensitive to expansionary policies during recessions and its excess smoothness varies …

Macroeconomic models often invoke consumption "habits" to explain the substantial persistence of macroeconomic … consumption growth. But a large literature has found no evidence of habits in the microeconomic datasets that measure the behavior … aggregate consumption growth reflects consumers' imperfect attention to aggregate shocks. Our proposed degree of (macro …

Macroeconomic models often invoke consumption "habits" to explain the substantial persistence of macroeconomic … consumption growth. But a large literature has found no evidence of habits in the microeconomic datasets that measure the behavior … aggregate consumption growth reflects consumers' imperfect attention to aggregate shocks. Our proposed degree of (macro …

To predict the effects of the 2020 U.S. "CARES" act on consumption, we extend a model that matches responses of … households to past consumption stimulus packages. The extension allows us to account for two novel features of the coronavirus … likely be necessary if consumption spending is to recover. …

consumption and hypothetical debt decisions. Our findings suggest that real wealth mediates the sensitivity of consumption to …

beliefs about nominal debt and their own real net wealth. These changes in beliefs causally affect actual consumption and … hypothetical debt decisions. Our findings suggest that real wealth mediates the sensitivity of consumption to inflation once …

wealth. These changes causally affect actual consumption and hypothetical debt decisions. Our findings suggest real wealth … mediates the sensitivity of consumption to inflation once households are aware of the wealth effects of inflation. …