The combination of credit constraints and indivisible consumption goods may induce some risk-averse individuals to …

demand for movies per inhabitant. Furthermore, we test for the long run relationship and evaluate the elasticities of demand …

hard to obtain; therefore only net imports of biofuels (consumption minus national production) were calculated which can …

car. Using panel data on new-car registrations in Germany, Europe's largest car market, the present paper addresses this …

, but neither microeconomics nor consumption sociology even discuss it as a motive for consumption. After defining some key … terms, 'efficiency consumption' is introduced theoretically as a means for securing an income (consumer investment). It is … voluntary only for pioneers: Via social diffusion processes innovative consumption goods are transformed from a welcome …

Monitoring Survey (RLMS) for 1994-2005. We analyze cross-sectional income and consumption inequality and find that inequality … shocks. The response of consumption to permanent and transitory income shocks becomes weaker later in the sample, consistent …

transitory shocks? The implications for consumption and welfare depend crucially on the answer to this question. We use CEX … repeated cross-section data on consumption and income to decompose idiosyncratic changes in income into predictable life … evolution of consumption and income inequality well and delivers two main results. First, we find that permanent changes in …

zur Bedeutung von residentieller Mobilität für die lokale Orientierung und den lokalen Konsum identifizieren: eine … und von Personen in Fernbeziehung (LAT) mit dem nichtmobiler Personen verglichen. Lokal orientierter Konsum wurde als … Konsum von lokalen Alltagsprodukten, ökologischer Konsum, Medienkonsum und als große lokale Investitionen definiert …