Empirical Research of Chinese Residents’ Consumption Behaviors Based on Consumption Functions - American Journal of Industrial and Business Management

AJIBM > Vol.8 No.6, June 2018

Empirical Research of Chinese Residents’ Consumption Behaviors Based on Consumption Functions ()

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DOI: 10.4236/ajibm.2018.86102 877 Downloads 2,588 Views

Author(s)

Yan Xiao, Liting Liao

Affiliation(s)

Economic Department, Central South of Forestry and Technology, Changsha, China.

ABSTRACT

This paper simply expands two famous consume functions referring to macro-economics: Keynesian consumption function and Life-cycle consumption function; attempting to introduce the empirical proxy variance of irrational facts: money illusion and over-reaction, we rebuild a new Keynesian consumption model and Life-cycle consumption model, both of which are based on the hypothesis of resident’s irrational behavior. Then we use the new model to empirically test the macroeconomic years’ data of China’s urban residents from 1978 to 2013 and China’s rural residents from 1985 to 2013. The empirical results show that all residents of China are irrational, however, the reasons of cause irrational consumption are different, and the urban residents may be for money illusion, but the rural residents may show over-reaction to price volatility. Finally, we give theory analysis about the differences of the two irrational consumption behaviors and the results of the paper.

KEYWORDS

Money Illusion, Over-Reaction, Irrational Consumption Behavior

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Xiao, Y. and Liao, L. (2018) Empirical Research of Chinese Residents’ Consumption Behaviors Based on Consumption Functions. American Journal of Industrial and Business Management, 8, 1517-1535. doi: 10.4236/ajibm.2018.86102.

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