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- the quantity of resources that consumers use to satisfy their current needs and wants, measured by the sum of the current expenditure of the government and individual consumers
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- Stopwatch Marketing: Worth Some Time
- I’ve started Stopwatch Marketing, a look at how to get the attention of consumers when they’re actually in the market to buy something. The book is timely, because the combination of tight credit and recession or fear of such should dampen buying here, so catching consumers in those reduced windows...
- Blog posts 2008-02-15
- Consumption Risk and Expected Stock Returns
- Following the textbook C-CAPM, the consumption risk of an asset is typically measured as the contemporaneous covariance of the marginal utility of consumption and the return on that asset. When measured this way, consumption risk is too small to explain the observed equity premium, is negatively related to expected excess...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Sustainable Consumption And Production: Energy And Industry
- Increases in energy and resource efficiency, together with cleaner technologies and improved products, have resulted in reduced energy and resource consumption and pollution per unit of production and consumption. However, the increased efficiency has generally been offset by even greater increases in overall production and consumption, resulting in continuing increases...
- White papers 2006-05-01
- Smart Metering: Critical Enabler For The High-Performance Utility Of The Future
- As the energy industry faces up to ever-deeper cuts in carbon emissions over the coming decades, the installation of smart meters in customers' home will become increasingly important to help drive change in consumers' behaviour and reduce energy consumption. At the same time, the parallel need to improve security of...
- White papers 2008-07-30
- Marvell Technology Group Ltd., F1Q10 (Qtr End 05/02/2009) Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer Session Operator Operator Instructions. Your first question comes from the line of James Schneider - Goldman Sachs. James Schneider - Goldman Sachs To start off, could we talk a little bit about where you are in terms of shipping to end consumption; you’ve talked about the overreaction...
- Earnings calls 2009-05-28
- Kellogg Company Q2 2009 Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer Session Operator Thank you. Operator Instructions Your first question comes from Robert Moskow - Credit Suisse. Robert Moskow - Credit Suisse I just had a question about the sales growth. You know it came in a little bit lighter than what we had hoped. The Nielsen data...
- Earnings calls 2009-07-30
- Marketing to "Simplifiers"
- The Find: Marketing expert John Quelch warns that economic turmoil is likely to produce a new type of consumer to contend with: the middle-aged Simplifier. The Source: A post on the Harvard Business Conversation Starter. The Takeaway: Quelch, a taxonomist of shoppers and a...
- Blog posts 2008-10-20
- What Higher Savings Means for the Economy
- Americans find themselves in a situation economists describe as 'The Paradox of Thrift:' Saving is good for the household, but bad for the overall economy.
- Videos 2009-03-10
- Is Saving More a Good Thing?
- Americans have cut down dramatically on spending and ratcheted up their savings rates. And while that's good for the economy long term, helping to finance valuable investment, in the short term, it's only making our economic woes worse…A recent store visit underscores just how dramatically spending habits have changed in...
- Articles 2009-03-09
- Living Simply to Simply Live
- A psychologist and author argues that the recession and the simplified lifestyle that comes with it could actually reduce your stress levels and make you happier. Barry Schwartz's ideas about the U.S. culture of consumption are about to be put to the test…If Barry Schwartz is right, then the recession...
- Articles 2009-03-09
- The Fruits of Frugality
- Despite our recent history, Americans haven't always been spendthrifts: from 1950 to 1992, the saving rate averaged 8.6 percent. What a return to a savings rate that high might look like in terms of social habits, the country's mood, and our position in the world…In the wake of the...
- Articles 2009-03-17
- Are You Saving Too Much?
- The economic crisis has driven families to rediscover a long-forgotten American virtue: thrift. Ironically, that's exactly what the economy doesn't need right now.The message from the Administration and the U.S. Treasury couldn't be clearer: Please start spending again, America. Your economy needs you. But we haven't been listening....
- Articles 2009-03-24
- Salmonella In Pistachios?
- A major producer of pistachios is recalling over 2 million pounds of nuts that may be contaminated with salmonella. John Blackstone has the latest.
- Videos 2009-03-31
- Pricing 'Cyclical' Goods
- Consumption of certain commodities causes transitory satiation. The day after visiting an amusement park, the utility derived from another visit is likely to be very low, but tends to increase over time. Most people also experience a similar change in preferences after dining at an ethnic restaurant, getting a haircut,...
- White papers 2005-07-26
- Slower Consumption: Reflections on Product Life Spans and the "Throwaway Society"
- Sustainable consumption is unlikely to be achieved as long as the quantity of household waste generated in industrial nations continues to rise. One factor underlying this trend is the life span of household goods. This article contributes to recent advances in life-cycle thinking by highlighting the significance of product life...
- White papers 2005-07-07
- Capital Consumption : An Alternative Methodology for Pricing Reinsurance
- This paper introduces a capital consumption methodology for the price evaluation of reinsurance in a stochastic environment. It differs from the common practice of risk-based capital allocation. This method eliminates the need for capital allocation and release; creates scenarios that more closely model actual contract capital usage; allows more flexibility...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Precautionary Saving and Consumption Fluctuations
- This paper uses the consumption Euler equation to derive a decomposition of consumption growth into four sources. These are new information and three sources of predictable consumption growth: inter-temporal substitution, changes in the preferences for consumption, and incomplete markets for consumption insurance. The economic importance of precautionary saving rivals that...
- White papers 2004-03-01
- Coordinated Policy Measures for Reducing the Fuel Consumption of the U.S. Light-Duty Vehicle Fleet
- This research finds that there exists no silver bullet for reducing the fuel consumption of motor vehicles in the U.S. However, there are several different policy measures available to affect the production and purchase of more fuel efficient vehicles as well as reduce the amount of driving. Qualitative and quantitative...
- White papers 2004-06-01
- Office of Distributed Energy Resources: Fuel Cells for Buildings Program
- The paper describes about fuel cells for building program by the Office of Distributed Energy Resources. The project is to build into the PEM fuel cells those characteristics that make it a prime component as a power generator and make maximum use of recoverable energy for cooling/heating and indoor air...
- White papers 2001-10-12
- Consumption, Durable Goods, and Transaction Costs
- The paper studies consumption of durable and nondurable goods when the durable good is subject to transaction costs. In the model, agents derive utility from a service flow of a durable good and a consumption flow of a nondurable good. The key feature of the model is the existence of...
- White papers 2003-01-01
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