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elasticity of substitution in market consumption (IES) and the static elasticity of substitution between home and market … consumption (SES). Understanding this connection is important because there is a large body of empirical evidence suggesting that …
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Inspired by the recent literature on aggregation theory, this paper introduces HITS, a semiparametric model of consumer demand that allows for diversity in tastes. The strong variation of budget shares observed aacross income strata can arise from two economic factors: the individual income...
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The Consumer Panel of Australia data collected by the Roy Morgan Research Centre is used to investigate the determinantes of brand choice behavior in the laundry detergent market.
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We consider a model with two types of consumers, with each preferring a different variety of goods, and with each better at producing the type of good it prefers to consume. We find that under plausible conditions members of the majority group earn a higher wage and enjoy higher utility than...
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The aim of this paper is to characterise the set of non regular economies, when there is a finite number of consumers with either finite or infinitely many goods. We prove that the structure of the equilibrium set is the same in both cases and that there exist bifurcations in some of these models.
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This paper analyses how sequential purchase of the different components assembled in some consumption good affects firm …
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The paper is about the economic modelling of aggregate consumption expenditure with particular emphasis on the … stability") we shall derive a first order approximation for the change in the aggregate consumption ratio. This approximation … allows to analyze whether and how the distribution effect on income affects the aggregate consumption ratio. …
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