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Consumption and income smoothing

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  • Francesco Busato
  • Bruno Chiarini
  • Elisabetta Marzano

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This article presents a two-sector dynamic general equilibrium model in which income smoothing takes place within the households (intra-temporally), and consumption smoothing takes place among the households (inter-temporally). Idiosyncratic risk-sharing within the family is based on an income smoothing contract. There are two-sectors in the model, the regular sector and the underground sector, and the smoothing comes from the underground sector, which is countercyclical with respect to aggregate GDP. The article shows that the simulated disaggregated consumption and income series (that are the regular and underground consumption flows) are more sensitive to exogenous changes in sector-specific productivity and tax rates than regular and underground income flows, and that this picture is reversed when the aggregate series are considered.

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  • Francesco Busato & Bruno Chiarini & Elisabetta Marzano, 2008. "Consumption and income smoothing," Applied Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 40(17), pages 2191-2207.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:applec:v:40:y:2008:i:17:p:2191-2207
    DOI: 10.1080/00036840600949348
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    1. Raffaella Basile & Bruno Chiarini & Giovanni Luca & Elisabetta Marzano, 2016. "Fiscal multipliers and unreported production: evidence for Italy," Empirical Economics, Springer, vol. 51(3), pages 877-896, November.
    2. Chiarini Bruno & Ferrara Maria & Marzano Elisabetta, 2024. "Noncompliant behaviors in general equilibrium: A survey," Journal of Economic Surveys, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 38(3), pages 931-955, July.

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