We study the spending response at offline retailers to China's Singles Day, the world's largest E-Commerce shopping holiday. Consumer's credit and debit card spending at the brick-and-mortar stores increases by 10.6% on the Singles Day during 2013-2017. The increase is concentrated in physical...

Analysis of household food consumption patterns and welfare requires knowledge of household demand responses to changes in price and income. Estimation of the price and expenditure elasticities requires detailed data on household purchases and prices, which are often not available in many...

Scientific evidence on the effect of sugar consumption on obesity has propelled policy makers in several states across the U.S. to propose the imposition of a tax on soft drinks sales. In this paper, we look at the effect of two tax events: a 5.5% sales tax on soft drinks imposed by the state of...

This study examined the short and long-run effects of private remittances on household consumption in Ghana from 1980 to 2016, controlling for structural breaks. Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) technique was used to investigate the relationship. Results showed that remittances positively...

We use the 2013 federal government shutdown and a rich data set from an online personal finance website to study the effects of changes in income on changes in consumption. The 2013 shutdown represented a significant and unanticipated income shock for federal government workers, with no direct...

We investigate the effect of uncertainty on home durable purchase decisions, and empirically evaluate the efficacy of consumer durable policies under uncertainty. A model of lumpy home capital adjustment shows that elevated uncertainty leads households to adopt a cautionary perspective and...

Im Rahmen einer Querschnittsanalyse wird die Steuer- und Abgabenlast in Deutschland auf Haushaltsebene für 2018 untersucht. Neben der Belastung nach Haushaltseinkommen wird die Belastung nach der Konsumhöhe betrachtet. Schließlich wird der Beitrag unterschiedlicher Einkommensgruppen zur...

This paper shows that prices respond asymmetrically to increases and decreases in consumption taxes. We combine monthly commodity price data with information on Value Added Tax (VAT) rates across several European countries for the period 1996-2015 and show that prices respond more to VAT...

Im Rahmen einer Querschnittsanalyse wird die Steuer- und Abgabenlast in Deutschland auf Haushaltsebene für 2018 untersucht. Neben der Belastung nach Haushaltseinkommen wird die Belastung nach der Konsumhöhe betrachtet. Schließlich wird der Beitrag unterschiedlicher Einkommensgruppen zur...

During the 2010-2019 decade, consumption taxes have risen in the vast majority of the EU Member States as a result of austerity measures, tax shifts as well as taxing transport and housing-related energy consumption. The redistributive impact of these policy changes remains mostly unexplored. In...