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| Author: | Banks, J. Blundell, R. Brugiavini, A. |
| Title: | Risk pooling, precautionary saving and consumption growth |
| Journal: | Review of Economic Studies
2001 : OCT, VOL. 68:4(237), s. 757-779 |
| Index terms: | CONSUMPTION GROWTH INCOMES RISK SAVINGS UNITED KINGDOM |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | In this paper the authors model the evolution of income risk and consumption growth. They decompose the time series innovation of the income process into its common and cohort-specific components. From these they compute conditional variances which are used as separate risk terms in a consumption growth equation. Using a long series of British household data they exploit the time-series variation to identify precautionary saving effects and find strong evidence of their importance. |
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