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The Decision of When to Buy a Frequently Purchased Good: A Multi-Period Probit Model
Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 2000 Increased availability of scanner-based panel data has enabled researchers to better understand nondurable commodity purchase dynamics. In this study, we focus on one component of the purchase process--when to buy.
Brian W. Gould, Diansheng Dong
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Confronting the Representative Consumer with Household-Size Heterogeneity [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2010 Much analysis in macroeconomics empirically addresses economy-wide incentives behind consumer/investment choices by using insights from the way a single representative household would behave. Heterogeneity at the micro level can jeopardize attempts to back up the representative consumer construct with microfoundations. One complex aspect of micro-level
Christos Koulovatianos +2 more
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Applying quantile regression to determine the effects of household characteristics on household saving rates in Vietnam [PDF]
Journal of Asian Business and Economic Studies, 2020 Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyse the determinants of the saving behaviour of Vietnamese households and to explore the possible heterogeneity of household saving propensities. Design/methodology/approach – The authors estimate the effects
Thanh Xuan Hua, Guido Erreygers
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Optimal monetary policy and liquidity with heterogeneous households [PDF]
Review of Economic Dynamics, 2021 Abstract A liquidity-insurance motive for monetary policy operates when heterogeneous households use government-provided liquidity (“money”) to insure idiosyncratic risk. In our tractable sticky-price model this changes the central bank's trade-off by adding a linear benefit of insurance in the second-order approximation to aggregate welfare ...
Bilbiie, Florin, Ragot, Xavier
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Current Research in Environmental Sustainability, 2020 This paper provides empirical evidence on the socio-economic, demographic and regional determinants of household electricity consumption. The case of Greece is taken as an example for the empirical investigation, using data from the 2017 Household Budget
Ioannis Kostakis
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Heterogeneity of Electricity Consumption Patterns in Vulnerable Households [PDF]
Energies, 2020 A key aspect of the design of specific tariff structures is to identify and characterize homogeneous electricity consumption profiles. Recent research in residential electricity demand has explored load profile segmentation via cluster analysis combined with descriptive data from the dwelling and occupants, which has partly explained electricity load ...
Gianluca Trotta +2 more
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Frontiers in Sustainable Food SystemsThe heterogeneity in East African small-holder agricultural systems influences the farm households’ welfare outcomes. We examine the heterogeneity of rural farm households in Eastern Africa and the influence of such diversity on household food security ...
Adelaide Henderson +2 more
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Energies, 2022 Over the last 20 years, energy consumption in the residential sector in China has grown rapidly, and the growth is faster than that of any other energy form.
Lu Jiang +4 more
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Household debt leverage, social comparison pressure, and residents' happiness
International Review of Economics & FinanceThis paper systematically explores the impact mechanism and heterogeneity characteristics of household debt leverage on residents' happiness based on urban panel data from China covering the years 2010 to 2023.
Huaming Zhang +2 more
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Impact of Household Heterogeneity on Community Energy Storage in the UK
Energy Reports, 2020 The increasing penetration of Decentralised Energy Resources (DERs) into the residential sector along with a reduction in their subsidy in many countries requires innovative approaches to ensure economic viability. Whilst applications of Household Energy
Siyuan Dong +4 more
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