Monopolies can have a great impact on economic efficiency and therefore on the market. Thus, states try to avoid either … the existence of monopolies or their impacts on the markets. This case study aims at a real case of Google, that has been … sued by the European Union for its unlawful behavior. It is important to understand, how monopolies work and how the …

consumption function and the demand for money, not to mention monetary history, which helped to undermine the post World War 2 …

encourage consumption, effecting over 100 million consumers. We use a unique dataset of credit cards transaction to study the …

) and consumption poverty. Our results show that the two measures assign similar poverty status to about 52 percent of …, we find that household size matters in consumption poverty while we do not find significant effects on multidimensional … poverty. Amongst the shocks, drought shock is found to affect consumption poverty but not multidimensional poverty. This …

This paper describes the transmission of income inequality into consumption inequality and in so doing investigates the … degree of insurance to income shocks. It combines panel data on income from the PSID with consumption data from repeated CEX … found to play an important role in insuring permanent shocks. Adding durable expenditures to the consumption measure …

consumption data. We develop a specific approximation to the optimal consumption growth rule and use Monte Carlo evidence to show …