Showing 71 - 80 of 148,896
Over the last 15 years, the typical household has increasingly concentrated its spending on a few preferred products. However, this is not driven by "superstar" products capturing larger market shares. Instead, households increasingly purchase different products from each other. As a result,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480080
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012269172
"When people encounter goods in the marketplace - sugar, clothes, phones, etc. - there is a slim chance they will seek information about the origins of those goods. Far more likely is that the goods will remain anonymous, and the labor that went into making them, the supply chain through which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012255587
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011630690
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011719173
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011593280
I characterize how house price shocks affect consumption inequality using a life-cycle model of housing and non …-housing consumption with incomplete markets. I derive analytical expressions for the dynamics of inequalities and use these to analyze … large house prices swings seen in the UK. I show that movements in consumption inequality were large, that they correspond …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012105796
We exploit a quasi-experiment to provide new evidence on the magnitude of the housing wealth effect. We estimate an immediate shock of approximately -15% to house prices close to one of Stockholm's airports after its operations were unexpectedly continued as a result of political bargaining....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011967367
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011951894
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011923473