The paper presents the main results of the Eurosystem's Household Finance and Consumption Survey (HFCS) with an … reveal a mean household gross income below the euro-area average. The concentration of income in Italy is roughly positioned …

and household welfare. We estimate Euler equations and measure the volatility of unpredictable changes in consumption as …, and document that despite the increase in household debt between 1983 and 2007, there was no decline in the proportion of …

indices, demand systems and household clustering, we cluster household base on homogeneity of consumption behaviors and … such as, "What the equivalent amount of money for compensative welfare loss of household is through eliminating bread … estimate linear approximate almost ideal demand systems (LA\AIDS) for different clusters in five independent groups and also …

We examine how energy use at the household level moves with income growth in Bangladesh. Using the 2010 wave of … Bangladesh Household Income and Expenditure Survey data, our analyses indicate a U-shaped relationship of both electricity use … and other types of energy use (combined) with household consumption. The findings imply that as income grows, households …

This paper examines whether relative income and income inequality within reference groups affect household consumption …. Using the explanations of consumption behavior based on Dusenberry's relative income hypothesis, we test if household … consumption levels in Turkey are affected by the household's relative position and inequality in the reference group between 2005 …

and saved over time, and how households' marginal propensities to consume (MPCs) vary with household characteristics and …

The results from the second wave of the Eurosysystem's Household Finance and Consumption Survey (HFCS) indicate that …