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Satisfactory Mechanisms for Environments with Consumption Lower Bounds
By: Jerry R. Green and Jean-Jacques Laffont
Green, Jerry R., and Jean-Jacques Laffont. "Satisfactory Mechanisms for Environments with Consumption Lower Bounds." Journal of Economic Theory 19, no. 2 (December 1978): 359–375.
- 2021
- Working Paper
Housing Consumption and the Cost of Remote Work
By: Christopher Stanton and Pratyush Tiwari
This paper estimates housing choice differences between households with and without remote workers. Prior to the pandemic, the expenditure share on housing was more than seven percent higher for remote households compared to similar non-remote households in the same... View Details
Stanton, Christopher, and Pratyush Tiwari. "Housing Consumption and the Cost of Remote Work." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 28483, February 2021.
- June 2017
- Article
Conspicuous Consumption of Time: When Busyness and Lack of Leisure Time Become a Status Symbol
By: Silvia Bellezza, Neeru Paharia and Anat Keinan
While research on conspicuous consumption has typically analyzed how people spend money on products that signal status, we investigate conspicuous consumption in relation to time. We argue that a busy and overworked lifestyle, rather than a leisurely lifestyle, has... View Details
Bellezza, Silvia, Neeru Paharia, and Anat Keinan. "Conspicuous Consumption of Time: When Busyness and Lack of Leisure Time Become a Status Symbol." Journal of Consumer Research 44, no. 1 (June 2017): 118–138.
- December 1971
- Article
Optimum Consumption and Portfolio Rules in a Continuous-Time Model
By: Robert C. Merton
Merton, Robert C. "Optimum Consumption and Portfolio Rules in a Continuous-Time Model." Journal of Economic Theory 3 (December 1971): 373–413. (Chapter I of Ph.D. dissertation; Chapter 5 in Continuous-Time Finance.)
- 12 May 2015
- News
Nail Salons And The High Cost Of Conspicuous Consumption
- 2009
- Blog
Harvard Business Online—Marketing Know:How: How Governments Can Boost Consumption
By: John A. Quelch
Quelch, John A. "How Governments Can Boost Consumption." Harvard Business Online—Marketing Know:How (blog). May 4, 2009. https://hbr.org/2009/05/how-governments-can-boost-cons.
- 2007
- Working Paper
A Taste For Obscurity: An Individual-Level Examination of 'Long Tail' Consumption
By: Anita Elberse
Because online retailers are often able to provide products in a more cost-efficient manner than bricks-and-mortar stores, online channels are characterized by a vast assortment of products. Proponents of the "long tail" principle recently argued that the demand for... View Details
- 1992
- Other Unpublished Work
Government Consumption and the Real Exchange Rate: The Empirical Evidence
By: K. A. Froot and K. Rogoff
- Article
Early Withdrawal of Pandemic Unemployment Insurance: Effects on Earnings, Employment and Consumption
By: Kyle Coombs, Arindrajit Dube, Calvin Jahnke, Raymond Kluender, Suresh Naidu and Michael Stepner
In June 2021, 22 states ended all supplemental pandemic unemployment insurance (UI) benefits, eliminating benefits entirely for over 2 million workers and reducing benefits by $300 per week for over 1 million workers. Using anonymous bank transaction data and a... View Details
Keywords: COVID-19 Pandemic; Unemployment Insurance; Health Pandemics; Insurance; Employment; Financial Condition; Spending; Government Administration
Coombs, Kyle, Arindrajit Dube, Calvin Jahnke, Raymond Kluender, Suresh Naidu, and Michael Stepner. "Early Withdrawal of Pandemic Unemployment Insurance: Effects on Earnings, Employment and Consumption." AEA Papers and Proceedings 112 (May 2022): 85–90.
- Article
Consumption and Portfolio Decisions When Expected Returns Are Time Varying
By: Luis M. Viceira and John Y. Campbell
Viceira, Luis M., and John Y. Campbell. "Consumption and Portfolio Decisions When Expected Returns Are Time Varying." Quarterly Journal of Economics 114, no. 2 (May 1999): 433–495. (This note, "Consumption and Portfolio Decisions When Expected Returns Are Time Varying: Erratum," corrects an error in the May 1999 paper.)
- July 2022
- Article
The Pass-Through of Uncertainty Shocks to Households
By: Marco Di Maggio, Amir Kermani, Rodney Ramcharan, Vincent Yao and Edison Yu
Using new employer-employee matched data, this paper investigates the impact of uncertainty, as measured by idiosyncratic stock market volatility, on individual outcomes. We find that firms provide at best partial insurance to their workers. An increase in firm-level... View Details
Keywords: Employment Risk; Consumption; Employment; Risk and Uncertainty; System Shocks; Insurance; Household; Spending
Di Maggio, Marco, Amir Kermani, Rodney Ramcharan, Vincent Yao, and Edison Yu. "The Pass-Through of Uncertainty Shocks to Households." Journal of Financial Economics 145, no. 1 (July 2022): 85–104. (2023 Fama-DFA Prize for the Best Paper Published in the Journal of Financial Economics in Asset Pricing, 2nd place.)
- Article
Payment Depreciation: The Behavioral Effects of Temporally Separating Payments from Consumption
By: J. T. Gourville and Dilip Soman
Gourville, J. T., and Dilip Soman. "Payment Depreciation: The Behavioral Effects of Temporally Separating Payments from Consumption." Journal of Consumer Research 25, no. 2 (September 1998): 160–174.
- Article
Dynamic Consumption and Portfolio Choice with Stochastic Volatility in Incomplete Markets
By: George Chacko and Luis M. Viceira
Chacko, George, and Luis M. Viceira. "Dynamic Consumption and Portfolio Choice with Stochastic Volatility in Incomplete Markets." Review of Financial Studies 18, no. 4 (Winter 2005).
- January 1996
- Article
Real Business Cycle Models and the Forecastable Movements in Output, Hours and Consumption
By: J. J. Rotemberg and Michael Woodford
Keywords: Forecasting and Prediction
Rotemberg, J. J., and Michael Woodford. "Real Business Cycle Models and the Forecastable Movements in Output, Hours and Consumption." American Economic Review 86, no. 1 (January 1996): 71–89.
- 2020
- Working Paper
Revenue Collapses and the Consumption of Small Business Owners in the Early Stages of the COVID-19 Pandemic
By: Olivia S. Kim, Jonathan A. Parker and Antoinette Schoar
Using detailed transaction-level data from financial accounts, this paper shows that the revenues of small businesses and the consumption spending of their owners both decline by roughly 40% following the declaration of the national emergency in March 2020. However,... View Details
Kim, Olivia S., Jonathan A. Parker, and Antoinette Schoar. "Revenue Collapses and the Consumption of Small Business Owners in the Early Stages of the COVID-19 Pandemic." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 28151, November 2022.
- June 2001
- Article
The Potential Downside of Bundling: How Packaging Services Can Hurt Consumption
By: John T. Gourville and Dilip Soman
Keywords: Customers
Gourville, John T., and Dilip Soman. "The Potential Downside of Bundling: How Packaging Services Can Hurt Consumption." Cornell Hotel and Restaurant Administration Quarterly 42, no. 3 (June 2001): 29–37.
- January 2020
- Article
The Long-Run Dynamics of Electricity Demand: Evidence from Municipal Aggregation
By: Tatyana Deryugina, Alexander MacKay and Julian Reif
We study the dynamics of residential electricity demand by exploiting a natural experiment that produced large and long-lasting price changes in over 250 Illinois communities. Using a flexible difference-in-differences matching approach, we estimate that the price... View Details
Keywords: Electricity Demand; Consumption Dynamics; Energy; Policy; Demand and Consumers; Price; Mathematical Methods
Deryugina, Tatyana, Alexander MacKay, and Julian Reif. "The Long-Run Dynamics of Electricity Demand: Evidence from Municipal Aggregation." American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 12, no. 1 (January 2020): 86–114.
- Article
The Intensity of Ethnic Affiliation: A Study in the Sociology of Hispanic Consumption
By: Rohit Deshpandé, Wayne D. Hoyer and Naveen Donthu
- 01 Jan 1977
- Conference Presentation
Short Term Natural Gas Consumption Forecasts: Optimal Use of National Weather Service Data
By: James K. Sebenius and Richard Lehman