Consumer Sentiment and Consumer Spending: Decomposing the Granger Causal Relationship in the Time Domain

Abstract: It is often believed that the consumer sentiment index has predictive power for future consumption levels. While Granger causality tests have already been used to test for this, no attempt has been made yet to quantify the predictive power of the consumer sentiment index over different time horizons. In this paper, we decompose the Granger causality at different time lags, by looking at a sequence of nested prediction models. Since the consumer sentiment index turns out to be cointegrated with real consumption, we resort to Error Correcting Models. Four consumption series are studied, namely total real consumption, real consumption of durables, nondurables and services. Among other findings, we show that the consumer sentiment index Granger causes future consumption with an average time lag of four to five months. Furthermore, it is found that the consumer sentiment index has more incremental predictive power for consumption of services than for consumption of durables or nondurabl

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Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
Umfang
Online-Ressource
Sprache
Englisch
Anmerkungen
Postprint
begutachtet (peer reviewed)
In: Applied Economics ; 39 (2006) 1 ; 1-11

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft

Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wo)
Mannheim
(wann)
2006
Urheber
Gelper, Sarah
Lemmens, Aurélie
Croux, Christophe

DOI
10.1080/00036840500427791
URN
urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-239397
Rechteinformation
Open Access unbekannt; Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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