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Intertemporal consumption

Economic theories of intertemporal consumption seek to explain people's preferences in relation to consumption and saving over the course of their lives. The earliest work on the subject was by Irving Fisher and Roy Harrod, who described 'hump saving', hypothesizing that savings would be highest in the middle years of a person's life as they saved for…

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Intertemporal consumption

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income consumption life-cycle model people theory savings years future intertemporal highest life retirement lifetime consume assets windfall gains current saving

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liquidity constraintsinstance ofcapital market imperfections0.80text
a changing individual utility function over time or a particular form of expectation as to future income.Behavioural economists have proposed an alternate description of intertemporal consumptioninstance ofcapital market imperfections0.80text
the behavioural life cycle hypothesisinstance ofcapital market imperfections0.80text

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