Consumer Demand in the United States: Prices, Income, and Consumption Behavior (Paperback, 3, 2010)

Preliminaries.- and Overview.- Demand Theory Under Review.- Quantile Regression: A Robust Alternative to Least Squares.- Analyses of Data from BLS Consumer Expenditure Surveys.- Description of Data Used from the Ongoing BLS Consumer Expenditure Surveys.- Stability of U.S. Consumption Expenditure Patterns: 1996-1999.- Price and Income Elasticities Estimated from BLS Consumer Expenditure Surveys and ACCRA Price Data: Some Preliminary Results.- Estimation of Theoretically Plausible Demand Functions from U.S. Consumer Expenditure Survey Data.- An Additive Double-Logarithmic Consumer Demand System.- Quantile Regression Analysis of Asymmetrically Distributed Residuals.- CES Panel Dynamics: A Discrete-Time Flow-Adjustment Model.- Engel Curves for 29 Categories of CES Expenditure.- Summary of Cross-Sectional Results.- Analysis of Time-Series Data from National Income and Product Accounts.- Analysis of Time-Series Data on Personal Consumption Expenditures from the U.S. National Income and Product Accounts.- Quarterly PCE Models.- Annual PCE Models.- Discussion of the Time-Series Results.- Comparison of Time-Series and Cross-Sectional Elasticities.- Overall Assessment of CES and PCE Elasticities.- The Dynamics of Personal Saving.- Miscellaneous Studies of Income Distribution and Weak Axiom of Revealed Preference.- The Stationarity of Consumer Preferences: Evidence from Twenty Countries.- Notes on Thick-Tailed Distributions of Wealth.- Conic Distributions of Earned Incomes.- Final Evaluation.