ECON 2315 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Budget Constraint, Farad, Ricardian Equivalence

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When we save more, we have more money to buy new homes and new capital goods savings is a good thing expands our capacity to improve. The importance of consumption and saving (behavioral aspects: desired consumption: consumption amount desired by households, desired national saving: level of national saving when consumption is at its desired level: The consumption and saving decision of an individual: a person can consume less than current income (saving is positive, a person can consume more than current income (saving is negative) The consumption and saving decision of an individual: trade-off between current consumption and future consumption. The price of 1 unit of current consumption is 1 + r units of future consumption, where r is the real interest rate. Consumption-smoothing motive: the desire to have a relatively even. Effect of changes in expected future income: higher expected future income leads to more consumption today, so saving falls.

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