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The effects of medical insurance on durables consumption in rural China
Ying, Meiling; Du, Zaichao - In: China agricultural economic review : publ. in … 4 (2012) 2, pp. 176-187
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The effects of medical insurance on durables consumption in rural China
Ying, Meiling; Du, Zaichao - In: China Agricultural Economic Review 4 (2012) 2, pp. 176-187
Purpose – The New Rural Cooperative Medical Scheme (NRCMS), implemented in China since 2003, has greatly increased the … purpose of this paper is to empirically study the effects of medical insurance on durables consumption in rural China. Design …/methodology/approach – Using China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS) data, the authors study the effects of medical insurance on durable goods …
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Do newspaper articles on card fraud affect debit card usage?
Kosse, Anneke - 2011
This paper investigates the impact of newspaper publications about debit card skimming fraud on debit card usage in the Netherlands using daily information from January 1st 2005 to December 31st 2008. Time-series analyses are employed to assess the daily fluctuations in aggregate debit card...
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Habits and envy : what drives the consumption behavior of U.S. households?
Drechsel-Grau, Moritz; Schmid, Kai D. - 2013
In dieser Analyse schätzen wir den Einfluss von Gewohnheits-(Habits) gegenüber Vergleichsmotiven (Envy) zur Erklärung des Konsumverhaltens US-amerikanischer Haushalte. Wir verwenden Daten der seit August 2013 erhältlichen Konsumerhebungen des Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) für den...
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Do Newspaper Articles on Card Fraud Affect Debit Card Usage?
Kosse, Anneke - 2011
This paper investigates the impact of newspaper publications about debit card skimming fraud on debit card usage in the Netherlands using daily information from January 1st 2005 to December 31st 2008. Time-series analyses are employed to assess the daily fluctuations in aggregate debit card...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013120182
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Is a Household Debt Overhang Holding Back Consumption?
Dynan, Karen E. - 2012
The recent plunge in U.S. home prices left many households that had borrowed voraciously during the credit boom highly leveraged, with very high levels of debt relative to the value of their assets. Analysts often assert that this “debt overhang” created a need for household deleveraging...
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Advance information and consumption insurance : evidence from panel data
Pedroni, Marcelo; Singh, Swapnil; Stoltenberg, Christian - 2022 - Preliminary, April 15, 2022
We investigate whether US households possess advance information about their future income and what this means for consumption insurance. Based on insights from a theoretical model, we propose a new test to detect advance information, which requires only panel data on consumption and income....
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Do Newspaper Articles on Card Fraud Affect Debit Card Usage?
Kosse, Anneke - 2012
This paper investigates the impact of newspaper articles about skimming fraud on debit card usage in the Netherlands, using daily transaction data and daily newspaper announcements from January 1st 2005 to December 31st 2008. Key finding is that articles about skimming fraud significantly affect...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013109583
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The Response of Online Consumer Spending to Air Pollution : Evidence from a Quasi-experiment in China
Agarwal, Sumit; Wang, Long; Yang, Zoe - 2022
China's Huai River heating policy. We use a comprehensive and proprietary panel dataset obtained from China's largest e …
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Keeping Up with the Wangs : Relative Deprivation and Conspicuous Consumption among Chinese Consumers
Zhang, Xinyu; Pak, Tae-Young - 2022
The luxury goods market in China has seen a significant increase in consumer spending over the last decade. Researchers … important contextual determinant is growing income inequality in China, which could motivate “catch up” and “keep up … China Family Panel Studies (CFPS), we estimated a series of regressions that link personal relative deprivation to …
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