Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/153199 
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Year of Publication: 
2007
Series/Report no.: 
ECB Working Paper No. 765
Publisher: 
European Central Bank (ECB), Frankfurt a. M.
Abstract: 
In an overlapping generations maximization framework with consumers, whose information on uncertain future income realizations is front loaded, a closed form aggregate consumption function with CRRA preferences is derived. To have a closed form solution we assume that consumers solve their intertemporal optimization problem sequentially. First they assess riskadjusted life-time wealth and then the optimal consumption path. The derived model captures precautionary saving, which is dependent on the human to non-human wealth ratio. On aggregate level, after accounting for habit formation, the model is able to explain both the short-run (e.g. the excess sensitivity and the excess smoothness puzzle) and long-run stylized facts of the U.S. consumption data.
Subjects: 
Consumption
habit persistence
Information
Precautionary Saving
JEL: 
D11
D12
D82
E21
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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