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  • Externe Monographien

    Behavioural Economics, Consumer Policy, and Consumer Law

    New York [u.a.]: Springer, 2011, S. 271-398
    (Journal of Consumer Policy ; 34,3)
    | Lucia A. Reisch, Hans Micklitz, Kornelia Hagen (Eds.)
  • Nicht-referierte Aufsätze

    An Introduction to the Special Issue on "Behavioural Economics, Consumer Policy, and Consumer Law"

    In: Journal of Consumer Policy 34 (2011), 3, S. 271-276 | Hans-W. Micklitz, Lucia A. Reisch, Kornelia Hagen
  • SOEPpapers 339 / 2010

    The Life-Cycle Hypothesis Revisited: Evidence on Housing Consumption after Retirement

    According to the life-cycle theory of consumption and saving, foreseeable retirement events should not reduce consumption. Whereas some consumption expenditures may fall when goods are self-produced (given higher leisure after retirement), this argument applies especially to housing consumption which can hardly be substituted by home production. We test this hypothesis using micro data for Germany ...

    2010| Miriam Beblo, Sven Schreiber
  • SOEPpapers 350 / 2010

    Broke, Ill, and Obese: The Effect of Household Debt on Health

    We analyze the effect of household indebtedness on different health outcomes using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel from 1999-2009. To establish a causal effect, we rely on (a) fixed-effects methods, (b) a subsample of constantly employed individuals, and (c) lagged debt variables to rule out problems of reverse causality. We apply different measures of household indebtedness, such as the ...

    2010| Matthias Keese, Hendrik Schmitz
  • Externe Monographien

    Do Google Searches Help in Nowcasting Private Consumption? A Real-Time Evidence for the US

    Zürich: KOF, 2010, 25 S.
    (KOF Working Papers ; 256)
    | Konstantin A. Kholodilin, Maximilian Podstawski, Boriss Siliverstovs
  • Diskussionspapiere 1066 / 2010

    Forecasting Private Consumption by Consumer Surveys

    Survey-based indicators such as the consumer confidence are widely seen as leading indicators for economic activity, especially for the future path of private consumption. Although they receive high attention in the media, their forecasting power appears to be very limited. Therefore, this paper takes a fresh look on the survey data, which serve as a basis for the consumer confidence indicator (CCI) ...

    2010| Christian Dreger, Konstantin A. Kholodilin
  • Diskussionspapiere 1056 / 2010

    Confronting the Representative Consumer with Household-Size Heterogeneity

    Much analysis in macroeconomics empirically addresses economy-wide incentives behind consumer/investment choices by using insights from the way a single representative household would behave. Heterogeneity at the micro level can jeopardize attempts to back up the representative consumer construct with microfoundations. One complex aspect of micro-level heterogeneity is household size, as individuals ...

    2010| Christos Koulovatianos, Carsten Schröder, Ulrich Schmidt
  • Diskussionspapiere 1046 / 2010

    Household Savings Decision and Income Uncertainty

    This paper empirically investigates the effects of changes in the interest rate as well as transitory income uncertainty on households' consumption-savings decision. Applying a structural demand model to German survey data, we estimate the uncompensated interest rate elasticity for savings, in line with the literature, to around zero. Accordingly, any policy-induced variation of net returns to savings ...

    2010| Martin Beznoska, Richard Ochmann
  • SOEPpapers 327 / 2010

    Family Events and Timing of Intergenerational Transfers

    This research investigates how family events in adult children's lives influence the timing of their parents' financial transfers. We draw on retrospective data collected by the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) and use event history models to study the effects of marriage, divorce, and childbirth on receiving large gifts from parents. We find increased chances of receiving gifts of houses or ...

    2010| Thomas Leopold, Thorsten Schneider
  • Weekly Report 19 / 2010

    Nutritional Information: Traffic Light Labelling Is the Best Way to Reach Consumers

    More than half of German adults are overweight. Those most often affected include the elderly, poor, and individuals with poor education. Yet is overweight an issue that economists should address? Poor nutrition and lack of exercise play a major role in widespread diseases. One third of total health care expenditures are devoted to illnesses related to overweight. This is just one of the reasons why ...

    2010| Kornelia Hagen
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