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Consumer demand in the United States :

1441905103

9781441905109

144190509X

9781441905093

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Consumer demand in the United States :

[Book]

prices, income, and consumption behavior /

by Lester D. Taylor, H.S. Houthakker.

3rd ed

3rd ed

1 online resource (xxiv, 522 pages) :

illustrations

Includes bibliographical references (pages 507-515) and index

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

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"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."--P. [4] of cover

Springer

978-1-4419-0509-3

Consumer demand in the United States.

144190509X

SpringerLink

Consumption (Economics)-- United States.

Economic forecasting-- United States.

Business-- Management.

BUS-- 039000

POL-- 023000

Taylor, Lester D.

Houthakker, Hendrik S.

Ohio Library and Information Network.

20120328023120.0

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