Estimation of a consumption function for the cuban economy during the period 1975-2012
Keywords:
Consumption, Times Series, HouseholdAbstract
The purpose of this paper is to estimate a household consumption function for the Cuban economy during the period 1975-2012. For this purpose, a time series is analized using the econometric software Eviews. All the information was obtain from the National Office of Statistics in Cuba. The main results indicate that the Keynesian theory is the more suitable to explain the consumption behavior in the Cuban economy. The Gross domestic Product and the Other Income variable explain the agents decision regarding consumption. According with the assumptions about the exogenous variables of the model, the household consumption is supposed to show an average growing rate of 5.4%, during the period between 2013 and 2020.
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