As households reduce discretionary spending in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, concerns are high that a resulting fall in aggregate demand can lead to a lasting recession post-COVID-19. Consequently, policies aimed at stimulating consumer spending are of key interest to governments working to...

China has quickly become the largest e-commerce market in the world. By matching a nationally representative China Family Panel Studies survey with county-level e-commerce information obtained from Alibaba, this paper examines how e-commerce development has shaped household consumption growth in...

E-commerce is a comparatively classical concept that emerged into the business language in the 1970s. However, the theoretical and empirical conceptualization of the concept in marketing or consumer behaviour and economics is scanty. Therefore, we seek to statistically examine the impact of...