In order to explain the growth of obesity in industrialized and transitioneconomies, a behavioral approach to food intake and overconsumption of caloriesis presented. It is argued that changes in food consumption patterns are one of themain drivers behind the imbalance of calories consumed and...

We analytically and quantitatively examine a prominent justi…cation for capital income taxation: goodspreferred by those with high ability ought to be taxed. We study an environment where commodity taxesare allowed to be nonlinear functions of income and consumption and …nd that, when ability...

The analysis in this paper focuses on the impact of health on the savings andconsumption decisions of the elderly. In principle, there are at least five alternativechannels through which health may affect consumption and savings. Ill health mayaffect both consumption capacities and needs while...

Russia is experiencing deep structural changes in many areas. For the seafood industryimportant developments are large increases in household incomes, development of modernsuper- and hypermarket distribution channels, and product innovations. In the seafoodcategory consumers are adopting new...

We model the effects of consumption-type taxes which differ according to the base andlocation of the tax. Our model incorporates a monopolist producing and selling in twocountries with three sources of rent, each in a different location: a fixed factor (locatedwith production), mobile managerial...

Children’s lives have been transformed over the past century. Family incomes haveincreased, children lead more solitary lives, attitudes to childhood have changed, newproducts have been developed and commercial pressures on children have increased.The importance of these commercial pressures...

This paper presents evidence on the impact of individual as well as regionalcharacteristics on changes in fat, protein, alcohol and cigarette consumption, and on diet’sdiversity between 1994 and 2004. The results from a dynamic econometric model suggestthat among individual determinants such...

In an overlapping generations model, momentary equilibria are defined as points that lieon the intergenerational offer curve, i.e., they satisfy agents’ optimality conditions and marketclearing at any date. However, some dynamic sequences commencing from such points may notbe considered valid...

Rejuveniles are "grown-ups who cultivate juvenile tastes in products and entertain-ment". In this note, we study a standard AK growth model of overlapping gener-ations populated by rejuveniles. For our purposes, rejuveniles are old agents whoderive utility from "keeping up" their consumption...

Der Ort der Handlung ist ein Supermarkt, Darsteller sind Marktleiter,Kassiererinnen, Aushilfskräfte und Kunden, zu überwinden sind Problemeder Arbeitsorganisation, Warenpräsentation und -lagerung. Dies isteine ungewöhnliche Konstellation - selbst für einen Regisseur wie ITAMIJüzö, der...