I use a consumption-based test to examine the importance of income constraints and the degree of capital mobility across the Nordic countries over the period 1968-96. In particular, I explore the effects of financial deregulation of the 1980s. The estimating equation is derived along the lines...

This guide shows how a life cycle approach can be used to identify and reduce the environmental and health impacts of the products we use. It underlines the importance of considering these issues across the entire life cycle of a product and sets them within the context of policy development,...

This Country Focus studies the development of private consumption in France during the decade before the crisis. Are French consumers greater spendthrifts than their European fellows? In this paper, we estimate a consumption function to show that strong growth of private consumption in France...

In Germany private consumption virtually stagnated for nearly a decade and clearly lagged behind GDP growth. This Country Focus uses the estimation of a consumption function to show that the drop in employment is the most important factor behind the reluctance to consume in the first half of...

Ein hoher Fleischkonsum ist ungesund. Zudem ist die Viehwirtschaft für einen erheblichen Teil der globalen Treibhausgasemissionen verantwortlich. Eine RWI-Studie zeigt: Verhaltensökonomische Maßnahmen können dazu beitragen, den Fleischkonsum zu reduzieren, ohne Verbote oder zusätzliche...