
Handbook of US Consumer Economics
- 1st Edition - August 12, 2019
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Editors: Andrew Haughwout, Benjamin Mandel
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 1 3 5 2 4 - 2
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 1 3 5 2 5 - 9
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. This volume re… Read more

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Request a sales quoteHandbook 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. This volume reveals new insights into household decision-making on consumption and saving, borrowing and investing, portfolio allocation, demand of professional advice, and retirement choices. Nearly 70% of U.S. gross domestic product is devoted to consumption, making an understanding of the consumer a first order issue in macroeconomics. After all, understanding how households played an important role in the boom and bust cycle that led to the financial crisis and recent great recession is a key metric.
- Introduces household finance by examining consumption and borrowing choices
- Tackles macro-problems by observing new, original micro-data
- Looks into the future of consumer spending by using data, not questionnaires
Upper-division undergraduates, graduate students, and professionals worldwide working on household finance and consumer spending/retirement subjects
Preface
Benjamin Mandel and Andrew Haughwout
1. Empirical Analysis of the U.S. Consumer: Fact, Fiction, and the Future
Benjamin Mandel
2. Trends in Household Debt and Credit
Andrew Haughwout, Donghoon Lee, Joelle Scally, Lauren Thomas and Wilbert van der Klaauw
3. Trends in Household Portfolio Composition
Jesse Bricker, Kevin B. Moore and Jeffrey Pierce Thompson
4. Household Debt and Recession in Brazil
Gabriel Garber, Atif Mian, Jacopo Ponticelli and Amir Sufi
5. Rationality in the Consumer Credit Market: Choosing between Alternative and Mainstream Credit
Sumit Agarwal and Marieke Bos
6. How do consumers respond to real income shocks?
Fiona Greig and Amar Hamoudi
7. Spending To and Through Retirement
Katherine Roy, Je Oh, Sharon Carson and Joseph Marlo
8. Are millennials different?
Christopher Kurz, Geng Li and Daniel J. Vine
9. China’s Consumer Spending E-Commerce: Facts and Evidence from JD’s Festival Online Sales
Wei Tian, Yang Yang and Miaojie Yu
10. Consumer Expectations and the Macroeconomy
Giorgio Topa
11. Macro Forecasting Using Alternative Data
Apurv Jain
12. Regional price parities in the United States
Bettina Aten
13. Measuring Prices and Real Household Consumption of Medical Goods: Service based versus disease based approaches
Ralph Bradley and Brett Matsumoto
14. A Brief History of the Supplemental Poverty Measure
Thesia Garner and Liana Fox
- Edition: 1
- Published: August 12, 2019
- Imprint: Academic Press
- No. of pages: 456
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128135242
- eBook ISBN: 9780128135259
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