Consumer Demand in the United States : Prices, Income, and Consumption Behavior

Preliminaries -- and Overview -- Demand Theory Under Review -- Quantile Regression: A Robust Alternative to Least Squares -- Analyses of Data from BLS Consumer Expenditure Surveys -- Description of Data Used from the Ongoing BLS Consumer Expenditure Surveys -- Stability of U.S. Consumption Expenditure Patterns: 1996-1999 -- Price and Income Elasticities Estimated from BLS Consumer Expenditure Surveys and ACCRA Price Data: Some Preliminary Results -- Estimation of Theoretically Plausible Demand Functions from U.S. Consumer Expenditure Survey Data -- An Additive Double-Logarithmic Consumer Demand System -- Quantile Regression Analysis of Asymmetrically Distributed Residuals -- CES Panel Dynamics: A Discrete-Time Flow-Adjustment Model -- Engel Curves for 29 Categories of CES Expenditure -- Summary of Cross-Sectional Results -- Analysis of Time-Series Data from National Income and Product Accounts -- Analysis of Time-Series Data on Personal Consumption Expenditures from the U.S. National Income and Product Accounts -- Quarterly PCE Models -- Annual PCE Models -- Discussion of the Time-Series Results -- Comparison of Time-Series and Cross-Sectional Elasticities -- Overall Assessment of CES and PCE Elasticities -- The Dynamics of Personal Saving -- Miscellaneous Studies of Income Distribution and Weak Axiom of Revealed Preference -- The Stationarity of Consumer Preferences: Evidence from Twenty Countries -- Notes on Thick-Tailed Distributions of Wealth -- Conic Distributions of Earned Incomes -- Final Evaluation