Wealth effects in the consumption function of an emerging economy: Argentina 1980-2000

The effects of wealth on consumers´ expenditure have been widely studied since a long time ago, but a recent literature has suggested that consumers´ decisions respond to “wealth perception”. This work models aggregate consumption of Argentina trying to identify such effects over a period of great m...

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Autores principales: Ahumada, Hildegart, Garegnani, María Lorena
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spelling I19-R120-10915-1703772024-09-20T04:08:26Z http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/170377 Wealth effects in the consumption function of an emerging economy: Argentina 1980-2000 Ahumada, Hildegart Garegnani, María Lorena 2002-11 2002 2024-09-19T17:13:15Z en Ciencias Económicas consumption function wealth perception short and long-run determinants liquidity constraints The effects of wealth on consumers´ expenditure have been widely studied since a long time ago, but a recent literature has suggested that consumers´ decisions respond to “wealth perception”. This work models aggregate consumption of Argentina trying to identify such effects over a period of great macroeconomic variability. The results show that national disposable income is the only long-run determinant of private consumption and two proxies for adjusting wealth are adopted by the consumers in the short-run: a measure of real exchange rate and an effect from last peak income. Other determinants are also discussed. Facultad de Ciencias Económicas Objeto de conferencia Objeto de conferencia http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) application/pdf
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topic Ciencias Económicas
consumption function
wealth perception
short and long-run determinants
liquidity constraints
spellingShingle Ciencias Económicas
consumption function
wealth perception
short and long-run determinants
liquidity constraints
Ahumada, Hildegart
Garegnani, María Lorena
Wealth effects in the consumption function of an emerging economy: Argentina 1980-2000
topic_facet Ciencias Económicas
consumption function
wealth perception
short and long-run determinants
liquidity constraints
description The effects of wealth on consumers´ expenditure have been widely studied since a long time ago, but a recent literature has suggested that consumers´ decisions respond to “wealth perception”. This work models aggregate consumption of Argentina trying to identify such effects over a period of great macroeconomic variability. The results show that national disposable income is the only long-run determinant of private consumption and two proxies for adjusting wealth are adopted by the consumers in the short-run: a measure of real exchange rate and an effect from last peak income. Other determinants are also discussed.
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Objeto de conferencia
author Ahumada, Hildegart
Garegnani, María Lorena
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Garegnani, María Lorena
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title Wealth effects in the consumption function of an emerging economy: Argentina 1980-2000
title_short Wealth effects in the consumption function of an emerging economy: Argentina 1980-2000
title_full Wealth effects in the consumption function of an emerging economy: Argentina 1980-2000
title_fullStr Wealth effects in the consumption function of an emerging economy: Argentina 1980-2000
title_full_unstemmed Wealth effects in the consumption function of an emerging economy: Argentina 1980-2000
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