Handbook of US consumer economics /
Handbook of United States consumer economics
edited by Andrew Haughwout, Benjamin Mandel.
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Preface -- Empirical analysis of the US consumer: fact, fiction, and the future -- Handbook of the consumer chapter: trends in household debt and credit -- Trends in household portfolio composition -- Household debt and recession in Brazil -- Rationality in the consumer credit market: choosing between alternative and mainstream credit -- How do consumers respond to real income shocks? -- Spending to and through retirement -- Are millennials different? -- China's consumer spending 3-commerce: facts and evidence from JD's festival online sales -- Consumer expectations and the macroeconomy -- Macro forecasting using alternative data -- Regional price parities in the United States -- Measuring prices and real household consumption of medical goods: service-based versus disease-based approaches -- A brief history of the supplemental poverty measure -- Index.
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Handbook of U.S. Consumer Economics presents a deep understanding on key, current topics and a primer on the landscape of contemporary research on the U.S. consumer.