Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/86774 
Year of Publication: 
2010
Series/Report no.: 
Tinbergen Institute Discussion Paper No. 10-049/2
Publisher: 
Tinbergen Institute, Amsterdam and Rotterdam
Abstract: 
This paper examines the sources of stickiness in aggregate consumption growth. We first derive a dynamic consumption equation which encompasses many recent developments in consumption theory: habit formation, intertemporal substitution effects, consumption based on current income, and non-separabilities between private consumption and both hours worked and government consumption.Next, we estimate this dynamic consumption equation for a panel of 15 OECD countries over the period 1972-2007 taking into account endogeneity issues and error cross-sectional dependence. To this end, we develop a generalised method of moments version of the common correlated effects pooled estimator and demonstrate its small sample behaviour using Monte Carlo simulations. The estimation results support the labour-consumption complementarity hypothesis but not the other forms of stickiness.
Subjects: 
Sticky Consumption
Dynamic Panel
Cross-Sectional Dependence
JEL: 
C23
E21
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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