regulatory reform has changed the system of price setting, illustrating the dynamics of utility prices and of household … Family Budgets' over the period, and use them to depict the affordability issue in Italy. Our results show that after the …

In this paper, we analyze some distributional effects of the reforms to water and energy services in Italy. We first … document the new regulation setting in these services, illustrating the dynamics of utility prices and of household expenditure …

analyse the welfare effects of these reforms in Italy, with particular attention to water and energy goods. The first step is …

of the Hungarian Rotation Household Panel, a new dataset based on Household Budget Surveys. We give a detailed …

households who are perceived to be richer, on household savings and consumption. When controlling for own income as well as … consumption of up to 23 euros depending on the household's position in the income distribution. Our findings suggest that changing …

disaggregating household spending, income, saving, and debt between the bottom 95 percent and top 5 percent of the income … household leverage concentrated in the bottom 95 percent ultimately spawned the Great Recession. The demand drag of rising …

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 …

, we do not find much household-specific persistence in inflation disparities …