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Consumer finance survey gives insights for policymakers

Financial Update , Volume 14 , Issue Jul , Pages 4

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Household wealth composition: the impact of capital gains

New England Economic Review , Issue Nov , Pages 26-39

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On both sides of the quality bias in price indexes

It is often argued that price indexes do not fully capture the quality improvements of new goods in the market. Because of this shortcoming, price indexes are perceived to overestimate the actual price increases that occur. In this paper, I argue that the quality bias in price indexes is just as likely to be upward as it is to be downward. I show how both the sign and the magnitude of the quality bias in the most commonly applied price index methods are determined by the cross-sectional variation of prices per quality unit across the product models sold in the market. ; I do so by simulating ...
Staff Reports , Paper 157

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1952 survey of consumer finances: part III. income, selected investments, and short-term debt of consumers

Federal Reserve Bulletin , Issue Sep

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Car-buying consumers await stability in housing prices

An interview with Mike Jackson, Chairman and CEO of AutoNation Inc.>
EconSouth , Volume 9 , Issue 1

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1949 survey of consumer finances: part IV consumer ownership and use of liquid assets

Federal Reserve Bulletin , Issue Aug , Pages 896-911

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Surveys of liquid asset holdings

Federal Reserve Bulletin , Issue Sep

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Consumers' beef

FRBSF Economic Letter

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A leisurely reading of the life-cycle consumption data

A puzzle in consumption theory is the observation of a hump in age-consumption profiles. We study a general equilibrium life-cycle economy with capital in which households include both consumption and leisure in their period utility function. We calibrate the model and find that a significant hump in life-cycle consumption is a feature of the equilibrium. Thus inclusion of leisure in household preferences may provide part of the explanation of observed life-cycle consumption humps.
Working Papers , Paper 2003-017

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