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- Consumption
- 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...
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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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Cheese Trends Spring 2004: Cheese - A Natural
- According to the most recent data from USDA Economic Research Service, per capita consumption of natural cheese increased almost 2% from 2001 to 2002. More impressively, during the last quarter of the 20th century, when fluid milk consumption was rapidly declining, cheese consumption continued to grow. This article summarizes that...
- White papers 2004-03-23
- 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
- Optimal Taxation When Consumers Have Endogenous Benchmark Levels of Consumption
- The paper examines optimal taxes in an overlapping generations economy in which each consumer's utility depends on consumption relative to a weighted average of consumption by others the benchmark level of consumption as well as on the level of the consumer's own consumption. The socially optimal balanced growth path is...
- White papers 2003-11-01
- Housing, Consumption, and Asset Pricing
- This paper builds an equilibrium asset pricing model with housing consumption. Agents care about the composition of a consumption basket that contains shelter and other goods. The presence of composition risk increases the mean and variance of excess stock returns and lowers the risk free rate. Stock prices exhibit mean...
- White papers 2003-05-01
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Asset Allocation Under Imperfect Information: Closed-Form Consumption and Portfolio Choice Under Incomplete Markets
- This paper studies consumption and portfolio choice under incomplete markets and parameter uncertainty. This paper extends the literature on asset allocation by obtaining closed form solutions to the consumption and portfolio problem of an investor with incomplete information about variables, which determine the changes in the investment opportunity set and...
- White papers 2002-03-15
- Production and Consumption of Meat: Implications for the Global Environment and Human Health
- To fully understand, the detrimental effects of meat consumption on human health and the environment, it is important to understand the pathways through which these effects operate. This paper delineates the effects of meat production and consumption and the pathways through which these effects are manifest. It investigates meat production...
- White papers 2001-12-13
- 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
- Global Food Consumption and Impacts on Trade Patterns
- This report examines the effect of difference and changes in global food consumption on trade patterns. Driven primarily by per capita income growth, the composition of world agricultural trade has substantially changed in the past two decades. For developing countries, consumption and trade are shifting from basic staples towards higher...
- White papers 2001-06-04
- Capital Income Taxes and the Benefit of Price Stability
- The paper quantifies the gains associated with" reducing the distortion in favor of current consumption rather than future consumption and in" favor of the consumption of owner occupied housing. These tax effects are much larger than the" effect on the demand for money that is generally emphasized in studies of...
- White papers 1998-04-29
- Milk Consumption Increases 5 percent in All-Dairy School Vending Test
- Putting all-dairy vending machines in schools increases student dairy consumption, according to a pilot test by the Midwest Dairy Association, Swiss Valley Farms and Dairy Management Inc. Kids between the ages of 11 and 18 typically triple the amount of soda they drink, while reducing their milk consumption. An earlier...
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- Church & Dwight to Build New Laundry Detergent Plant in Pennsylvania
- FOOD AND BEVERAGE CLOSE-UP-8 June 2009-Church & Dwight to Build New Laundry Detergent Plant in PennsylvaniaC2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com Church & Dwight Co. has announced plans to construct a new integrated laundry detergent manufacturing plant and distribution center in York County, Pennsylvania. ...
- Articles 2009-06-08
- Research and Markets Adds Report: Increased Beer, Cider and FAB Market
- FOOD AND BEVERAGE CLOSE-UP-8 June 2009-Research and Markets Adds Report: Increased Beer, Cider and FAB MarketC2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com Research and Markets has announced the addition of "Beer, Cider and FABs in Canada to 2011" to its offerings. In a release, Research...
- Articles 2009-06-08
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