| Description |
1 online resource (xxiv, 522 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Introduction and Overview -- Part I. Preliminaries -- Demand Theory Under Review -- Quantile Regression: A Robust Alternative to Least Squares -- Part II. Analyses of Data from BLS Consumer Expenditure Surveys -- Description of Data Used from the Ongoing BLS Consumer Expenditure Surveys -- Stability of U.S. Consumption Expenditure Patterns: 1996-1999 -- Price and Income Elasticities Estimated from BLS Consumer Expenditure Surveys and ACCRA Price Data: Some Preliminary Results -- Estimation of Theoretically Plausible Demand Functions from U.S. Consumer Expenditure Survey Data -- An Additive Double-Logarithmic Consumer Demand System -- Quantile Regression Analysis of Asymmetrically Distributed Residuals -- CES Panel Dynamics: A Discrete-Time Flow-Adjustment Model -- Engel Curves for 29 Categories of CES Expenditure -- Summary of Cross-Sectional Results -- Part III. Analysis of Time-Series Data from National Income and Product Accounts -- Analysis of Time-Series Data on Personal Consumption Expenditures from the U.S. National Income and Product Accounts -- Quarterly PCE Models -- Annual PCE Models -- Discussion of the Time-Series Results -- Comparison of Time-Series and Cross-Sectional Elasticities -- Overall Assessment of CES and PCE Elasticities -- The Dynamics of Personal Saving -- Part IV Miscellaneous Studies of Income Distribution and Weak Axiom of Revealed Preference -- The Stationarity of Consumer Preferences: Evidence from Twenty Countries / Hendrik S. Houthakker -- Notes on Thick-Tailed Distributions of Wealth / Lester D. Taylor -- Conic Distributions of Earned Income |
| Summary |
"Consumption expenditures by households in the United States account for about 70% of America's GDP. The primary focus in this book is on how households adjust these expenditures in response to changes in prices and income."--Page 4 of cover |
| Analysis |
macroeconomics |
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marketing |
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econometrie |
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econometrics |
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economie |
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economics |
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finance |
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bedrijfswetenschap |
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management science |
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Management studies, Business Administration, Organizational Science (General) |
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Economics (General) |
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Management, bedrijfskunde, organisatiekunde (algemeen) |
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Economie (algemeen) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 507-515) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Consumption (Economics) -- United States
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Economic forecasting -- United States
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Marketing.
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marketing.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Economic Conditions.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economics -- Macroeconomics.
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Affaires.
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Science économique.
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Economie de l'entreprise.
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Consumption (Economics)
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Economic forecasting
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United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Houthakker, Hendrik S
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| ISBN |
9781441905109 |
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1441905103 |
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1282831941 |
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9781282831940 |
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9786612831942 |
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6612831944 |
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