borrowing, budgeting, and introspection about consumption choices. These sessions reduce future online borrowing and delinquency …

We use CHIP data from 1995, 2002, and 2013 to investigate inequality in urban household consumption expenditures …. Overall inequality in urban household consumption expenditures measured by the Gini coefficient decreased slightly from 0 … to a greater extent. However, the percentile ratio of p90/p10 shows that consumption inequality always increased. In …

This paper adds to the literature on wealth effects on consumption by disentangling house price effects on consumption … movements have different implications for the consumption/housing ratio. We exploit the geographical variation in property …. Overall, the results suggest a significant long run impact of property prices on consumption. They also broadly confirm the …

sense of very high investment and very low consumption, giving rise to rapid capital accumulation; and an imbalance between …. Both imbalances imply a low rate of time discount by both govern-ment and society: consumption in the present is forgone in … favour of consumption in the future. The paper examines how these imbalances came about, and goes on to consider whether they …

Boosting consumption has been a policy strategy for rebalancing the Chinese economy. The official statistics, however …, show persistently declining consumption as a share of GDP during the past decade. In this paper, we provide a more complete … picture of Chinese consumption by piecing together data from official and unofficial sources. Our estimations suggest that the …

We use CHIP data from 1995, 2002, and 2013 to investigate inequality in urban household consumption expenditures …. Overall inequality in urban household consumption expenditures measured by the Gini coefficient decreased slightly from 0 … to a greater extent. However, the percentile ratio of p90/p10 shows that consumption inequality always increased. In …