Consumption smoothing is an economic concept for the practice of optimizing a person's standard of living through an appropriate balance between savings...

the formation of consumption patterns. It suggests consumption patterns are formed from future expectations and consumption smoothing. The theory was developed...

argue that reverse mortgages may benefit the elderly by smoothing out their income and consumption patterns over time. However, regulatory authorities, such...

medium term, since this cut of consumption and demand, unemployment increases. The price index decreases as the consumption price drops. As a consequence...

economics and he was among the first to propagate the theory of consumption smoothing. During the 1960s, he became the main advocate opposing both Marxist...

borrowing during economic downturns runs counter to the concept of consumption smoothing, which suggests that individuals should borrow early in life and...

market assumption, the ability for the agent to smooth the consumption (consumption smoothing) across the time is, in general, limited when the borrowing...

literature, livestock plays only a minor role in Burkinabé households' consumption smoothing, as livestock sales compensate only ca. 15-30% of the shortfall...

when markets underperform." Laurence Kotlikoff, advocate of the consumption smoothing theory of retirement planning, is even less kind to the 4% rule...

World energy supply and consumption refers to the global supply of energy resources and its consumption. The system of global energy supply consists of...

the capacity of the central bank to smooth the volatility of the Balance of Payments and assure consumption smoothing in the long term. After the end of...

Friedman. Instead of marginal propensity to consume, it theorizes "consumption smoothing", where people spread out changes in income using borrowing (e.g...

targeting a desirable and budget feasible level of consumption in each state (i.e. consumption smoothing). In most set ups when these contracts are not available...

Vol. 12, No. 2, pp. 465–491   Bonaparte, Y., Cooper, R., Zhu, G., Consumption smoothing and portfolio rebalancing : the effects of adjustment costs, Journal...

substitution. New Keynesian economics § The science of monetary policy Consumption smoothing Hall, Robert (1978). "Stochastic Implications of the Life Cycle-Permanent...

during crisis. Given that economic agents are more interested in consumption smoothing than in the stabilization of output, CPI-indexed local currency...

of Chicago Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research Thesis Essays on taxation, transfers and consumption smoothing (2009) Website Damon Jones...

A consumption tax is a tax levied on consumption spending on goods and services. The tax base of such a tax is the money spent on consumption. Consumption...

Economic theories of intertemporal consumption seek to explain people's preferences in relation to consumption and saving over the course of their lives...

a large portion of their income. If the elasticity is low, the consumption smoothing motive is very strong and because of this consumers will save a...

Windkessel, propagating ventricular contraction and smoothing out the pulsatile flow, and the smooth muscle within the tunica media contributes to this...

SAGE Publications, ISBN 978-8-13210-977-8 Rose, Elaine (1999), "Consumption smoothing and excess female mortality in rural India", The Review of Economics...

such as those related to health care, are not stable over time. Consumption smoothing: under this approach individuals develop a target expenditure pattern...

doi:10.2307/2298062. JSTOR 2298062. Meng, Xin (2006). "Unemployment, consumption smoothing and precautionary saving in urban China". Unemployment, Inequality...

(TB), also known colloquially as the "white death", or historically as consumption, is a contagious disease usually caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis...

2307/2233724. JSTOR 2233724. Rosenzweig, Mark R.; Stark, Oded (1989). "Consumption Smoothing, Migration, and Marriage: Evidence from Rural India". Journal of...

the Backus–Kehoe–Kydland consumption correlation puzzle, also known as the BKK puzzle, is the observation that consumption is much less correlated across...

preferences to consumption expenditures and to consumer demand curves. It analyzes how consumers maximize the desirability of their consumption (as measured...

financial stability and the ability to plan for future events. This consumption smoothing yields to a better quality of life for the farmers and their families...

responses include borrowing, living off savings, selling assets, consumption smoothing, and undertaking a more intensive job search by the husband (Lundberg...