The primary purpose of this chapter is to demonstrate how a framework developed from data embodied in surveys of households’ consumer expenditures can be used to calculate complete arrays of own- and cross-price elasticities. The procedure is illustrated for simulated changes of ±10% in the...

Preface -- A Different Way of Looking at Consumption Behavior -- Stability of The Internal Structure of Consumption Expenditures -- Stability of The Internal Structure of Consumption Expenditure II: Interpretation and Further Analyses -- Effects of A Change In Expenditures For One Good on...

Preliminaries -- and Overview -- Demand Theory Under Review -- Quantile Regression: A Robust Alternative to Least Squares -- Analyses of Data from BLS Consumer Expenditure Surveys -- Description of Data Used from the Ongoing BLS Consumer Expenditure Surveys -- Stability of U.S. Consumption...

"Consumption expenditures by households in the United States acccount for about 70% of America's GDP. The primary focus in this book is on how households adjust these expenditures in response to changes in prices and income." -- Back cover