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Consumption Response Heterogeneity and Dynamics with an Inattention Region

13 Sep
2022
15H15 - 14H30
Jouy-en-Josas
Anglais

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2022-09-13T15:15:00 2022-09-13T14:30:00 Consumption Response Heterogeneity and Dynamics with an Inattention Region Department of Economics and Decision Sciences  Guest Speaker : Jérémy Boccanfuso (Univ. of Bologna) Room : T-012 Jouy-en-Josas

Department d'Economie et Sciences de la Décision  
Intervenant : Jérémy Boccanfuso (Univ. of Bologna)
Salle : T-012

Abstract:

A theory in which the timing of consumer expectation adjustments is endogenously state-dependent and stochastic is proposed. These expectation adjustments generate highly heterogenous consumption responses to income windfalls: many households do not respond, those who do over-react, the marginal propensity to consume depends on windfall size and is asymmetric. We document these features in the Bank of England survey of consumers and find that they simultaneously rule out most 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 significantly over the business cycle with consumers’ attention, a feature that we document in US data.

 

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2022-09-13T15:15:00 2022-09-13T14:30:00 Consumption Response Heterogeneity and Dynamics with an Inattention Region Department of Economics and Decision Sciences  Guest Speaker : Jérémy Boccanfuso (Univ. of Bologna) Room : T-012 Jouy-en-Josas