Liquidity Constraints and Precautionary Saving

The LiqConstr directory contains code to reproduce the figures of the paper Liquidity Constraints and Precautionary Saving by Carroll, Holm, and Kimball, and the LaTeX source to produce the paper once the figures have been created.

Code

Figures can be produced either:

Live in your browser using MyBinder:

Locally by running an ipython program on your computer:

1. Install the necessary tools on your computer
2. Download this repository using git clone https://github.com/econ-ark/LiqConstr or a zip folder using this link.
3. Change to the LiqConstr directory and execute ipython LiqConstr.py from the command line.

In a local interactive jupyter notebook

1. Install the jupyter notebook tool per Installation.md
2. Download this repository using git clone https://github.com/econ-ark/LiqConstr or a zip folder using this link.
3. Type jupyter lab at the command line
4. Click on LiqConstr.ipynb

Reproduce the figures and compile the paper locally using nbreproduce

1. Install nbreproduce
2. Download this repository using git clone https://github.com/econ-ark/LiqConstr or a zip folder using this link.
3. Execute nbreproduce from the command line.

Paper

The paper can be generated by compiling the LaTeX file LiqConstr.tex using a standard distribution of LaTeX like TeXLive or Overleaf.