Precautionary Saving over the Business Cycle

Xavier Ragot and Edouard Challe

No 9608, CEPR Discussion Papers from C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers

Abstract: We study the macroeconomic implications of time-varying precautionary saving within a general equilibrium model with borrowing constraint and both aggregate shocks and uninsurable idiosyncratic unemployement risk. Our framework generates limited cross-sectional household heterogeneity as an equilibrium outcome, thereby making it possible to analyse the role of precautionary saving over the business cycle in an analytically tractable way. The time-series behaviour of aggregate consumption generated by our model is much closer to the data than that implied by the comparable hand-to-mouth and representative-agent models, and comparable to that produced by the (intractable) Krusell-Smith (1998) model.

JEL-codes: E20 E21 E32 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013-08
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