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We study how experts influence consumer behavior and welfare by focusing on the Booker Prize. Leveraging the discontinuity created by the attribution of the prize, we show that readers receive the signal sent by the jury of the Booker and are persuaded to buy the awarded book but experience...
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We propose a consistent utility-based framework to jointly explain a household's decisions on purchase incidence, brand …
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that theory predicts an inversion when consumers are either risk or loss averse. In those cases, an increase in price …
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This paper introduces a model of limited consumer attention into an otherwise standard new trade theory model with love …
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each car owned by the household -- own and cross-price effects of increases in fuel costs per kilometre. The empirical … results show that failure to capture substitution between cars within the household can result in substantial misspecification … the position of the most fuel efficient car in the household, suggesting that households" fuel efficiency choices are …
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This paper explores whether and why the pandemic differentially altered women and men's consumption behavior. After the 2020 wave of lockdown restrictions were lifted, women reduced consumption more than men. Data on self-reported reasons for consuming less reveals that gender differences in...
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Prospective economic developments depend on the behavior of consumer spending. A key question is whether private expenditures recover once social distancing restrictions are lifted or whether the COVID-19 crisis has a sustained impact on consumer confidence, preferences, and, hence, spending....
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to consume (MPCs). Our main contribution is to document how MPCs vary with household characteristics and prize size, and … systematic relations with observables point toward well-understood mechanisms from existing theory and should be useful to …
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We study the redistributive effects of inflation combining administrative bank data with an information provision experiment during an episode of historic inflation. On average, households are well-informed about prevailing inflation and are concerned about its impact on their wealth; yet, while...
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Using the data on maintenance expenditures and self-assessed house value, I separate the measure of individual housing stock and house prices, and use these data for testing whether nondurable consumption and housing are characterized by intratemporal nonseparability in households’...
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