Purpose The purpose of the paper is to analyze the supply and demand of marketing and communication consulting services and evaluate actual and perceived gaps. Design/methodology/approach The paper uses two different datasets to assess the gap. The supply database comes from desk research...

This paper details the statistical sources, methods and findings that underpin the demographic evidence offered by Johansson (2010) in support of her thesis regarding “Europe’s first knowledge‐driven mortality transition,” namely the pronounced and sustained rise in the expectations of...

We build a model of the mortgage market where banks attain their optimal mortgage portfolio by setting rates and "steering" customers. "Sophisticated" households know which mortgage type is best for them, while "naïve" ones are susceptible to steering by their banks. Using data on the universe...

We build a model of the mortgage market where banks attain their optimal mortgage portfolio by setting rates and steering customers. Sophisticated households know which mortgage type is best for them; naive households are susceptible to banks' steering. Using data on the universe of Italian...

About half of the cyclical change in US non-durable consumption expenditure is due to changes in the products entering households' consumption basket (the extensive margin). Changes in the basket depend mostly on fluctuations in the rate at which households add new products; removals are...