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Guglielmo Weber

Guglielmo Weber

International Research Fellow

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Education

PhD Economics, LSE London, 1988
MSc Econometrics and Mathematical Economics, LSE London, 1983
Laurea Economics, Siena University, 1982

Guglielmo is Professor of Econometrics at the University of Padua and an International Research Fellow of the IFS. His research interests are in consumption, saving and investment choices of households and economics of aging.

Journal articles

Journal article | Journal of Economic Literature
Consumption and Saving: Models of Intertemporal Allocation and Their Implications for Public Policy
A critical survey of the life cycle model of consumption.
Journal article | The Economic Journal
Asking consumption questions in general purpose surveys
In many research areas it is desirable to have information on household total expenditure (‘consumption’).

Working papers

IFS Working Paper W16/10
Consumption during the Great Recession in Italy
We use Italian micro data to investigate how consumers reacted to the Great Recession.
IFS Working Paper W08/05
The retirement consumption puzzle: evidence from a regression discontinuity approach
In this paper we investigate the size of the consumption drop at retirement in Italy.

Presentations