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This paper investigates empirically the consumer demand of environmentally relevant goods for Germany, as well as their relationship to the demand for leisure. Higher prices for energy goods like gas, electricity or fuel oil due to higher indirect taxation amongst others may have serious welfare...
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We revisit the alleged retirement consumption puzzle. According to the life-cycle theory, foreseeable income reductions such as those around retirement should not affect consumption. However, we first recall that given higher leisure endowments after retirement, the theory does predict a fall of...
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the UK data remarkably well, and possibly in a superior way than US data where, according to our estimates, consumers … habits look more internal in that they appear indexed to past average consumption of only a subset of (peer) consumers in the … economy, rather than total past per capita consumption. We also find that for about one seventh of UK consumers, current …
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industries equally rather than based on how relevant they are for consumers. We propose markup measures in which firm-level price …
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