; it analyses the cross-border consumption behaviour of cross-border commuter households residing in Belgium, France and … Germany and working in Luxembourg. In total, it is estimated that these households spend €925 million per annum in Luxembourg …

We use micro data on young married households from the Japanese Panel Survey of Consumers in order to analyze the … importance of borrowing constraints in Japan. We find (1) that 8 to 15 percent of young married Japanese households are borrowing … and for the subsample of unconstrained households. These results suggest that the life cycle/permanent income hypothesis …

This paper studies consumption and savings decisions of Danish households before and during the financial crisis as … increasing housing wealth over one year to be around 4-6 per cent. Younger and more levered households have a larger MPC out of … housing wealth, suggesting that collateral effects may play a role. The MPC is asymmetric; households adjust their consumption …

This paper investigates the potentially non-linear relation between households' indebtedness and their consumption … previous studies, we find a negative effect of households' indebtedness on their consumption, even in the absence of negative …, rather than its overall sustainability, that leads households to reduce their consumption. We perform as well a threshold …

This paper investigates the potentially non-linear relation between households' indebtedness and their consumption … Survey. Unlike previous studies, we find a negative effect of households' indebtedness on their consumption, even in the …-to-day sustainability of the debt, rather than its overall sustainability, that leads households to reduce their consumption. To explore …

detail (fruit and vegetables, baked goods, school meals) and a social empirical study (private households) was carried out …

It is sometimes argued that more advertising raises consumption which in turn stimulates output and so economic growth … advertising does not Granger-cause growth but Granger-causes consumption. Consumption, in turn, Granger-causes GDP growth. The … data imply that the immediate impact of more advertising on consumption is positive. However, the long-run effect is …