消费理论一直是微观经济理论与实践研究的热点问题,消费平滑作为其中一个较为新兴的领域引起学术界的广泛关注。本文对消费平滑研究进行系统梳理发现,家庭通过跨期消费(持有金融资产)、风险分担(利用家庭间的转移支付)和从事间歇性雇佣劳动等方式实现消费平滑;政府通过实行宽松的宏观政策、转移支付以及建设社会福利网促使居民实现消费平滑;国家间主要从金融一体化、出口、估值效应促进消费平滑,稳定经济周期变化的消费水平。未来消费平滑理论应重视家庭住户的区域属性与经济属性、家庭金融资产对消费平滑的作用机制、居民消费的惯性平滑与投资效率的研究。 Consumption theory has always been a hot issue in the study of microeconomic theory and practice. As one of the more emerging fields, consumer smoothness has aroused widespread academic attention. In this paper, a systematic review of the study of consumer smoothness shows that households achieve a smooth consumption through inter-period consumption (holding financial assets), risk sharing (using family-based transfer payments) and engaging in intermittent wage labor. The government, through a loose macro Policies, transfer payments and the construction of a social welfare network have helped residents to achieve a smooth consumption pattern. Countries mainly promote consumption smoothness and stable economic cycle changes through financial integration, exports and valuation effects. The future consumption smoothing theory should pay attention to the research on the regional attributes and economic attributes of family households, the mechanism of family financial assets on consumption smoothness, the inertia smoothness of household consumption and investment efficiency.