
Handbook of US Consumer Economics
Description
Key Features
- Introduces household finance by examining consumption and borrowing choices
- Tackles macro-problems by observing new, original micro-data
- Looks into the future of consumer spending by using data, not questionnaires
Readership
Upper-division undergraduates, graduate students, and professionals worldwide working on household finance and consumer spending/retirement subjects
Table of Contents
Preface
Benjamin Mandel and Andrew Haughwout
1. Empirical Analysis of the U.S. Consumer: Fact, Fiction, and the Future
Benjamin Mandel
2. Trends in Household Debt and Credit
Andrew Haughwout, Donghoon Lee, Joelle Scally, Lauren Thomas and Wilbert van der Klaauw
3. Trends in Household Portfolio Composition
Jesse Bricker, Kevin B. Moore and Jeffrey Pierce Thompson
4. Household Debt and Recession in Brazil
Gabriel Garber, Atif Mian, Jacopo Ponticelli and Amir Sufi
5. Rationality in the Consumer Credit Market: Choosing between Alternative and Mainstream Credit
Sumit Agarwal and Marieke Bos
6. How do consumers respond to real income shocks?
Fiona Greig and Amar Hamoudi
7. Spending To and Through Retirement
Katherine Roy, Je Oh, Sharon Carson and Joseph Marlo
8. Are millennials different?
Christopher Kurz, Geng Li and Daniel J. Vine
9. China’s Consumer Spending E-Commerce: Facts and Evidence from JD’s Festival Online Sales
Wei Tian, Yang Yang and Miaojie Yu
10. Consumer Expectations and the Macroeconomy
Giorgio Topa
11. Macro Forecasting Using Alternative Data
Apurv Jain
12. Regional price parities in the United States
Bettina Aten
13. Measuring Prices and Real Household Consumption of Medical Goods: Service based versus disease based approaches
Ralph Bradley and Brett Matsumoto
14. A Brief History of the Supplemental Poverty Measure
Thesia Garner and Liana Fox
Product details
- No. of pages: 456
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Academic Press 2019
- Published: August 12, 2019
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128135242
- eBook ISBN: 9780128135259
About the Editors
Andrew Haughwout
Affiliations and Expertise
Benjamin Mandel
Affiliations and Expertise
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