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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"consumption inequality"”.
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Three essays on asset pricing
… to translate into stock market risk under a 2-consumption good CCAPM model framework. Then I use U.S. data and a bivariate EGARCH-DCC model to estimate the dynamic second moments of crude oil price changes and stock returns. I find that oil price changes have significant effects on the second …
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Essays on Household Finance and Small Business Credit
… in credit access between spouses can help reduce consumption inequality in the household. The 2013 reversal of the Truth-in-Lending Act increased the borrowing capacity of secondary earners in equitable-distribution states but not in community-property states, where division-of-property laws …
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Race and Consumption: Consumer Markets and the Production of Racial Inequality
<p>Racial economic inequality is a major social concern in the United States. Sociological research on the issue has focused primarily on understanding disparities in the process of earning income and accumulating wealth. Much less clear, however, is what happens when individuals try to spend the …
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The Heterogeneity of Consumer Behavior: Analyzing Entertainment Expenditures in Relation to Lifecycles, Business Cycles and Demographic Influences
… high-income groups adjust their entertainment consumption more readily during recessions. Additionally, the time series analysis of this empirical part indicates a widening gap in the level of entertainment spending between the bottom and top income quintiles over the period of 1996 to 2019. …
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Essays on the Economics of Debt, Default and Housing Markets
… significantly attenuate (by roughtly half) the consumption drop during a crisis. Importantly, I show that the ability of households to gain insurance through delinquency is significantly impacted by the degree of recourse available to banks upon foreclosure. The model features realistic …
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Essays in International and Monetary Economics
… first chapter explores the drivers of inflation inequality across households. In particular, it examines how households use heterogeneously the quality margin of the varieties they purchase to insure themselves against shocks. Using household scanner data of supermarket consumption for Germany, I …