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Corporate Retentions and Consumers’ Expenditure

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Corporate retained profits have well‐determined effects on both total and non‐durable consumers’ expenditure, with coefficients which do not differ significantly from those on disposable income in a standard consumption function; the effects also appear in a life‐cycle model which excludes disposable income. Retentions convey no useful information about future values of the other arguments of either consumption function. The implications of an alternative explanatory hypothesis, of a discrepancy between the principles and practice of national accounting, are not rejected.

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  • Michael Sumner, 2004. "Corporate Retentions and Consumers’ Expenditure," Manchester School, University of Manchester, vol. 72(1), pages 119-130, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:manchs:v:72:y:2004:i:1:p:119-130
    DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9957.2004.00383.x
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