Keeping up with the Joneses and unemployment risk
This paper characterises the dynamic behaviour of a growing economy where individuals 'keep up with the Joneses' and face uninsurable labour income risk. Idiosyncratic uncertainty about future labour income reduces the marginal propensity to consume out of financial wealth and raises the e...
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University of Oxford
2001
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