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Consumption

Consumption is the most important single element of AD (typically accounts for between half and two-thirds of Total Final Expenditure)

Permanent Income and Life-Cycle hypotheses

These were developed in 50s and 60s in response to a discrepancy between:

1. Consumption function estimated from LR time series data, and
2. Much flatter consumption function estimated from SR time series and cross section data.

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