Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/18138 
Year of Publication: 
2003
Series/Report no.: 
DIW Discussion Papers No. 382
Publisher: 
Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW), Berlin
Abstract: 
The present paper tests for the existence of multicointegration between real per capita private consumption expenditure and real per capita disposable personal income in the USA. In doing so, we exploit the fact that the flows of disposable income and consumption expenditure on the one hand, and the stock of consumers? wealth, which can be considered as cumulative past discrepancies between the flows of income and expenditure, on the other hand, can be thought of as a stock-flow model, in which multicointegration is likely to occur. We apply recently developed I(2) techniques for testing for multicointegrating relations and find supporting evidence for the existence of multicointegration in US consumption data.
Subjects: 
Cointegration
multicointegration
I(2) processes
consumption
JEL: 
C12
C13
C22
C32
C51
E21
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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