households' consumption expenditures and their perceived pass-through of the tax change into prices to quantify its effects. The … consumption spending by 34 billion Euros. …

This paper investigates the causes of the Italian consumption decline of the early 1990’s by estimating deviations from … normal consumption for 1985-94. The paper uses household data from the Survey of Family Budgets (SFB) from ISTAT, a …,000 Italian households each year. The paper finds that the decline in consumption was larger for the working age households and …

This paper investigates the causes of the Italian consumption bust of the early 1990s by estimating deviations from … 'normal' consumption using household level data for 1985-94. The data set used is a particularly rich, but as yet unexplored … households each year. The main findings are that the decline in consumption was larger for the working age households. The fall …

stagnation of household consumption during the 1990s and find that the stagnation of household disposable income, the decline in …

This paper examines how households adjusted their consumption behavior in response to COVID-19 infection risk during … the early phase of the pandemic. We use a monthly consumption survey specifically designed by the German Statistical … Office covering the second wave of COVID-19 infections from September to November 2020. Households reduced their consumption …

This paper examines how households adjusted their consumption behavior in response to COVID-19 infection risk during … the early phase of the pandemic. We use a monthly consumption survey specifically designed by the German Statistical … Office covering the second wave of COVID-19 infections from September to November 2020. Households reduced their consumption …

This chapter reviews empirical estimates of differential income and consumption growth across individuals during … recessions. Most existing studies examine the variation in income and consumption growth across individuals by sorting on ex ante … or contemporaneous income or consumption levels. We build on this literature by showing that differential shocks to …

mortgage markets. The paper focuses specifically on: the transmission channel from housing wealth to consumption and on the … that the strongest impact on consumption is in countries that have large, efficient and responsive mortgage markets …