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Consumption of durable goods and tests of the permanent income hypothesis: evidence from Korean macro data

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  • Hoe-Kyung Lee
  • Moon-Kee Kong

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Quarterly aggregate data from Korean urban households is used to test the restrictions on the vector autoregressive (VAR) representation of the permanent income hypothesis (PIH). In testing these restrictions, an alternative consumption measure is proposed which takes account of the flow of services from durable goods. For comparison, two commonly used measures - total consumption expenditures and expenditures on non-durables and services - are also employed in the empirical analysis, and the results show that the choice of consumption measures could have a significant effect on the results of the tests, leading to a false conclusion with the improper consumption variables.

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  • Hoe-Kyung Lee & Moon-Kee Kong, 2000. "Consumption of durable goods and tests of the permanent income hypothesis: evidence from Korean macro data," Applied Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 32(1), pages 39-44.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:applec:v:32:y:2000:i:1:p:39-44
    DOI: 10.1080/000368400322967
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    1. Francisco Gallego & Felipe Morandé & Raimundo Soto, 2001. "El ahorro y el consumo de durables frente al ciclo económico: ¿Consumismo, frugalidad, racionalidad?," Central Banking, Analysis, and Economic Policies Book Series, in: Felipe Morandé & Rodrigo Vergara & Norman Loayza (Series Editor) & Klaus Schmidt-Hebbel (Series Edit (ed.),Análisis Empírico del Ahorro en Chile, edition 1, volume 1, chapter 5, pages 105-140, Central Bank of Chile.
    2. Jaoaqin Alegre & Llorenc Pou, 2008. "Further evidence of excess sensitivity of consumption? Nonseparability among goods and heterogeneity across households," Applied Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 40(7), pages 931-948.

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