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Consumption-based macroeconomic forecasting


Abstract: The authors build a small-scale econometric model based on the permanent income theory of consumption and balanced economic growth in order to study the influence of permanent and transitory factors on the level of economic activity.

Keywords: Macroeconomics; Consumption (Economics);

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Provider: Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago

Part of Series: Economic Perspectives

Publication Date: 2005

Volume: 29

Issue: Q IV

Pages: 52-70