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Are Aggregate Consumption Relationships Similar Across the European Union?

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Alan Carruth, Heather Gibson, Euclid Tsakalotos

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CARRUTH A., GIBSON H. and TSAKALOTOS E. (1999) Are aggregate consumption relationships similar across the European Union?, Reg. Studies 33 , 17-26. The answer to the question posed in the title of the paper may have some bearing on whether consumer spending will respond in similar ways to common shocks across the European Union. The DHSY model is implemented, its robustness and its commonality assessed for the 15 EU countries. The model performs encouragingly well across this group of countries, though there is evidence that the long run, unit elasticity restriction is not valid for a number of countries. Our results do not support the hypothesis of common aggregate consumption behaviour for these countries. Similar tests across the five core countries, Germany, France, the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg show somewhat greater conformity in the DHSY consumption estimates, as might be expected, but nevertheless the coefficient estimates are not similar at conventional significance levels. CARRUTH A., GIBSON H. et TSAKOLTOS E. (1999) Dans quelle mesure est-ce que la consommation globale re´agit de la meˆme fac¸on à travers les pays de l'Union europe´enne?, Reg. Studies 33 , 17-26. La re´ponse à la question pose´e ci-dessus pourrait avoir un impact non-ne´gligeable sur les de´penses à la consommation à travers l'Union europe´enne à la suite des chocs communs. Le modèle DHSY se voit employer, et sa robustesse et sa validite´ e´valuer pour ce qui est des quinze pays-membres de l'union europe´enne. Heureusement, le modèle a de bons re´sultats à travers ce regroupement de pays, quoique tout indique que la contrainte à long terme relative à l'e´lasticite´ unitaire n'est pas valable pour quelques pays. Les re´sultats ne viennent pas à l'appui de l'hypothèse qui proˆne un comportement commun dans ces pays quant à la consommation globale. Des tests similaires faits dans les principaux cinq pays, à savoir l'Allemagne, les Pays-Bas, la Belgie, et le Luxembourg, montrent que les estimations DHSY de la consommation sont plus conformes, comme pre´vu. Toujours est-il que les estimations des coefficients ne sont pas similaires à des niveaux d'importance statistique conventionnels. CARRUTH A., GIBSON H. und TSAKALOTOS E. (1999) Sind aggregierte Verbrauchsbeziehungen in der ganzen EU ähnlich?, Reg. Studies 33 , 17-26. Die Antwort auf das im Titel aufgeworfene Problem könnte für die Frage von Belang sein, ob Verbraucherausgaben in der ganzen EU auf ihnen gemeinsame Erschütterungen in ähnlicher Weise reagieren. Das DHSY Modell wird in die Tat umgesetzt, seine Widerstandsfähigkeit und allgemein verbreitetes Vorkommen für die 15 EU Länder beurteilt. Es ist ermutigend, wie gut sich der Einsatz des Modells in all diesen Ländern bewährt, obwohl es Anzeichen gibt, daß die langfristige Beschränkung der Einheitenelastizität für einige Länder nicht zutrifft. Die Ergebnisse der Autoren sprechen nicht für die Hypothese allgemein aggregierten Verbraucherverhaltens in allen Ländern. Vergleichbare Untersuchungen in den fünf Kernländern Deutschland, Frankreich, Belgien, Luxemburg und den Niederlanden ergeben eine etwas größere Gleichartigkeit der DHSY Verbrauchsschätzungen als man erwarten sollte; die Koeffizientenschätzungen sind aber auf der Ebene konventioneller Signifikanz nichtsdestoweniger nicht gleichartig.

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Volume (Year): 33 (1999)
Issue (Month): 1 (February)
Pages: 17-26
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Keywords: Consumer Spending Eurpoean Union Dhsy Model Depenses A La Consommation Union Europeenne Modele Dhsy Verbraucherausgaben Eu Dhsy Modell;

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