Testing the Optimality of Consumption Decisions of the Representative HouseholdEvidence from Brazil
Gesteira Costa, Marcos; Carrasco-Gutierrez, Carlos Enrique
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Resumo
This paper investigates whether there is a fraction of consumers that do not behave as fully forward-looking optimal consumers in the Brazilian economy. The generalized method of moments technique was applied to nonlinear Euler equations of the consumption-based capital assets model contemplating utility functions with time separability and non-separability. The results show that when the household utility function was modeled as constant relative risk aversion, external habits and Kreps-Porteus, estimates of the fraction of rule-of-thumb households was, respectively, 89%, 78% and 22%. According to this, a portion of disposable income goes to households who consume their current incomes in violation of the permanent income hypothesis.
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- Tipo
- Artigo científico
- Ano
- 2015
- Instituição
- EGV EPGE
- Idioma
- Português
- Acesso
- Não informado
- Identificador
- oai:ojs.periodicos.fgv.br:article/30037
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