aggregate consumption

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meanings of aggregate and consumption

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aggregate
adjective [before noun]
uk
/ˈæɡ.rɪ.ɡət/
us
/ˈæɡ.rə.ɡət/
total:
consumption
noun [U]
uk
/kənˈsʌmp.ʃən/
us
/kənˈsʌmp.ʃən/
the amount used ...

(Definition of aggregate and consumption from the Cambridge English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of aggregate consumption

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Figures 7 and 8 show the time path of aggregate consumption and aggregate asset holdings.
We allow the imported goods to enter both aggregate consumption and aggregate investment.
Such a boost in aggregate consumption demand makes the effects on output and inflation stronger.
The problem is that aggregate consumption is a (stochastically) growing series.
That is why the response of atomistic consumption to an interest-rate change generally is ambiguous, whereas the response of aggregate consumption generally is not.
Quasi-static growth of the first kind can be modeled theoretically as an optimal control problem with aggregate consumption (or welfare) as the objective function.
Since all individuals are identical and have the same expectations, aggregate consumption drops as well in the next period.
We usually think of the aggregate consumption function as a relation between consumption on the one hand and income and interest rates on the other.
Some of this variability appears to be driven by heterogeneity in the consumption patterns of consumers as opposed to movements in the aggregate consumption series.
It stems from a desire to estimate the levels of aggregate consumption an economy is capable of sustaining along alternative economic programmes.
A small open economy can exhibit aggregate consumption behavior consistent with that of an atomistic agent only if it operates in nearly perfect capital markets.
The revenue is related to the growth rate in aggregate consumption per capita.
To be sure, such an assumption would guarantee that growth in aggregate consumption was sustainable.
The model comprises four goods (an aggregate consumption commodity, living space, infrastructure, and environmental quality) and a continuum of identical households.
We thus have the standard result that aggregate consumption depends on tastes, technology, and initial conditions.
This formulation of demand obtains either in the absence of subsistence points or when subsistence points are modeled at the level of aggregate consumption.
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.

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