Seminar: Corina Boar (NYU)

Hunter West 1537 (Economics Dept. Seminar Room) 912 Lexington Avenue, New York

Title: Who Are the Hand-to-Mouth? (H2M2E_Draft) Abstract: Many households hold little wealth, especially liquid wealth. In precautionary savings models, absent preference heterogeneity, these households should display not only higher marginal propensities to consume (MPC’s), but also lower average propensities to consume (APC’s) and higher future consumption growth. We see from Read more…