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The distribution of households consumption-expenditure budget shares
Barigozzi, Matteo; Alessi, Lucia; Capasso, Marco; … - 2009
This paper explores the statistical properties of house-hold consumption-expenditure budget share distributions —defined as the share of household total expenditure spent for purchasing a specific category of commodities— for a large sample of Italian households in the period 1989-2004. We...
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The age-profile of invisible transfers: the true size of asymmetry in inter-age reallocations
Gál, Róbert Iván; Szabó, Endre; Vargha, Lili - 2013
We argue that the institutional composition of funding consumption in the two dependent sections of the lifecycle, childhood and old age, are different. To put it sharply, children are raised by their parents, the elderly rely on society. Since the reallocation of resources within households are...
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Einkommensumverteilung schwächt privaten Verbrauch
Brenke, Karl - In: DIW Wochenbericht 78 (2011) 8, pp. 2-12
Der private Verbrauch hat sich in den letzten Jahren in der Bundesrepublik nur schwach entwickelt. Stattdessen wurde vermehrt gespart. Ein großer Teil der Haushalte - 40 Prozent - kann allerdings kein Geld zurücklegen. Sparen können vor allem die Bezieher hoher Einkommen. Die zunehmende...
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Yksityisen kulutuksen ennustemalleja
Peussa, Aleksandr - 2014
The share of private consumption in gross domestic product is significant; therefore, private consumption has a great influence on economic growth, which makes it a major concept in economics. The purpose of the paper is to estimate and evaluate different forecasting models for private...
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Taxation, infrastructure investment, growth, and poverty reduction: A case study of Zimbabwe
Lofgren, Hans; Cicowiez, Martín - 2022
In recent decades, Zimbabwe's development record has been disappointing. In the last few years, a severe drought and the Covid-19 pandemic have added to the country's development challenges. This paper is concerned with the long-run need to find a path toward faster growth in GDP, employment,...
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The anatomy of consumption in a household foreign currency debt crisis
Gyöngyösi, Győző; Rariga, Judit; Verner, Emil - 2021
during a large depreciation. We use detailed consumption survey data that follows households for four years around Hungary …
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Spatial developments of Hungarian agriculture in the transition: the case of crop production
Fertő, Imre - 2007
The paper investigates spatial changes in cultivation and land use of wheat, maize and oilseed in Hungarian agriculture using different methods to measure these changes. The results suggest that spatial structure of crop productions has remained fairly stable during analysed period. The spatial...
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Comparative advantages in agro-food trade of Hungary, Croatia and Slovenia with the European Union
Bojnec, Štefan; Fertő, Imre - 2007
products with revealed comparative advantages in the EU markets for Hungary and to a lesser extent for Croatia, but have not … identified any such aggregated agro-food product group for Slovenia. Yet, also Hungary and Croatia have faced difficulties in … comparative trade advantages in consumer-ready foods and processed intermediaries. Agro-food sectors in Hungary are likely to …
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A model of household type specific food demand behaviour in Hungary
Brosig, Stephan - 2000
The paper describes a two stage model of Hungarian households' food demand. Demand for the food aggregate is represented by a Working-Leser type single equation model while demand for seven distinct food types is modelled in a complete demand system using the LA/AIDS functional form. Estimation...
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Cost of compliance with the aquis communautaire in the Hungarian dairy sector
Kiss, Piroska; Weingarten, Peter - 2003
different stages of the agri-food chain in Hungary. The assessment is mainly based on a classification of farms and processors … investments in buildings, milking and cooling facilities and delivery trucks. The raw milk quality in Hungary has steadily … Beitrag wird der Teil des acquis communautaire betrachtet, der für den Milchsektor in Ungarn von Bedeutung ist. Für …
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