Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/210962 
Year of Publication: 
2019
Series/Report no.: 
Discussion Papers No. 904
Publisher: 
Statistics Norway, Research Department, Oslo
Abstract: 
We formulate a general cointegrated vector autoregressive (CVAR) model that nests both a class of consumption Euler equations and various Keynesian type consumption functions. Using likelihoodbased methods and Norwegian data, we find support for cointegration between consumption, income and wealth once a structural break around the financial crisis is allowed for. That consumption cointegrates with both income and wealth and not only with income points to the empirical irrelevance of an Euler equation. Moreover, we find that consumption equilibrium corrects to changes in income and wealth and not that income equilibrium corrects to changes in consumption, which would be the case if an Euler equation is true. We also find that most of the parameters stemming from the class of Euler equations are not corroborated by the data when considering conditional expectations of future consumption and income in CVAR models. Only habit formation seems important in explaining the Norwegian consumer behaviour. Our preferred model is a dynamic Keynesian type consumption function with a first year marginal propensity to consume out of income close to 25 per cent.
Subjects: 
Consumption Euler equation
Keynesian consumption function
financial crisis
structuralbreak
conditional expectations
JEL: 
C51
C52
E21
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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