Representing consumption and saving without a representative consumer
- The Great Recession confirmed a bedrock principle of modern consumption theory: It is impossible to explain aggregate spending behavior without knowledge of the underlying microeconomic distribution of circumstances and choices across households. National accounting frameworks therefore need to be augmented by “bottom up” measures that both (a) capture the microeconomic heterogeneity (in expenditures, income, assets, debt, and beliefs) in the population and (b) sum up to statistics that have a recognizable relationship to the aggregate totals that are already reasonably well measured.
| Author: | Christopher D. Carroll |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-346874 |
| URL: | https://www.ifk-cfs.de/2478.html |
| Parent Title (English): | Center for Financial Studies (Frankfurt am Main): CFS working paper series ; No. 464 |
| Series (Serial Number): | CFS working paper series (464) |
| Publisher: | Center for Financial Studies |
| Place of publication: | Frankfurt am Main |
| Document Type: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English |
| Year of Completion: | 2014 |
| Year of first Publication: | 2014 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
| Release Date: | 2014/08/04 |
| Tag: | Distribution; Inequality; National Accounting |
| Page Number: | 25 |
| HeBIS-PPN: | 350964181 |
| Institutes: | Wirtschaftswissenschaften / Wirtschaftswissenschaften |
| Wissenschaftliche Zentren und koordinierte Programme / Center for Financial Studies (CFS) | |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 3 Sozialwissenschaften / 33 Wirtschaft / 330 Wirtschaft |
| Sammlungen: | Universitätspublikationen |
| Licence (German): |  Deutsches Urheberrecht |
