consumption

Do the unemployed pay lower prices? A reassessment of the value of unemployment insurance
It is well known that transitions from employment to unemployment reduce consumption expenditure, but is this fall mainly driven by …
Rodolfo G. Campos, Iliana Reggio
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Optimal unemployment insurance: Consumption versus expenditure
We study the optimal provision of unemployment insurance (UI) in a framework that distinguishes between consumption and expenditure. We …
Rodolfo G. Campos, Iliana Reggio
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Consumption in the shadow of unemployment
By how much do employed households reduce their consumption when the aggregate unemployment rate rises? In Spain during the Great …
Rodolfo G. Campos, Iliana Reggio
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Measurement error in imputation procedures
We study how estimators that are used to impute consumption in survey data are inconsistent due to measurement error in consumption. …
Rodolfo G. Campos, Iliana Reggio
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Micro versus macro consumption data: the cyclical properties of the consumer expenditure survey
The Consumer Expenditure Survey (CEX) offers the most comprehensive consumption data at the consumer level for the United States. …
Rodolfo G. Campos, Iliana Reggio, Dionisio Garcı́a-Píriz
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