Bouvet, Florence; Kim, Chong-Uk - In: Global Business and Economics Review 16 (2014) 2, pp. 157-178
This paper seeks evidence of the relationship between US households' consumption and imports, notably imports from China. Using MSA-level data from the consumer expenditure survey from 1986 to 2007, we find that in general imports, and especially those from China, are positively related with...