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across consumers …
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Over the last 15 years, the typical household has increasingly concentrated its spending on a few preferred products. However, this is not driven by "superstar" products capturing larger market shares. Instead, households increasingly purchase different products from each other. As a result,...
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We estimate the degree of 'stickiness' in aggregate consumption growth (sometimes interpreted as reflecting consumption habits) for thirteen advanced economies. We find that, after controlling for measurement error, consumption growth has a high degree of autocorrelation, with a stickiness...
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The "debt-overhang hypothesis" - that households cut back more on their spending in a crisis when they have higher levels of outstanding mortgage debt (Dynan, 2012) - seems to be taken for granted by macroprudential authorities in several countries in their policy decisions, as well as by the...
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changes, a prediction for which we find empirical support in PSID data. We explain the implications of this group of consumers …
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selected consumers into Berry, Levinsohn, and Pakes (1995)-style estimates of differentiated products demand systems. We extend …
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We use an experiment to test whether consumers optimally acquire information on energy costs in appliance markets where …, like many contexts, consumers are poorly informed and make mistakes despite freely-available information. We find consumers … mistakes: a conventional subsidy for energy-efficient products and a non-traditional subsidy paying consumers to view …
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-purchase behavior. Consumers are found to be forward-looking, but more impatient than would be implied by the real rate of interest …
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The COVID-19 pandemic led to stark reductions in economic activity in India. We employ CMIE's Consumer Pyramids Household Survey to examine the timing, distribution, and mechanism of the impacts from this shock on income and consumption through December 2020. First, we estimate large and...
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