Economic theories of the household and the marriage market provide potential explanations for differences in household formation rates over time based in part on the evolution of female wages. However, cross-country differences in female market human capital are unlikely to account for the...

This paper seeks to disaggregate concerns about energy security within the wider European neighbourhood from the nation-state to the household, and particularly to poor households in the transition and developing economies of the former Soviet Union. It argues that two decades of...

This paper sets up a model of private consumption for selected EU countries with special emphasis on the impact of energy efficiency on energy demand. The analysis starts out from the idea that consumers' demand is a combination of a demand for "services" with a technological component. Demand...

Im Jahr 2006 gaben die privaten Haushalte in Deutschland 1 283 Mrd. € für diverse Waren und Dienstleistungen im Inland aus. Das waren etwa 2,2% mehr als im Vorjahr, was preisbereinigt einem Zuwachs von 0,8% entspricht. Der Einzelhandel, ohne Handel mit Kraftfahrzeugen und ohne Tankstellen,...