How Does Household Spending Respond to an Epidemic? Consumption During the 2020 COVID-19 Pandemic
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- Scott R Baker & Robert A Farrokhnia & Steffen Meyer & Michaela Pagel & Constantine Yannelis & Jeffrey Pontiff, 0. "How Does Household Spending Respond to an Epidemic? Consumption during the 2020 COVID-19 Pandemic," The Review of Asset Pricing Studies, Society for Financial Studies, vol. 10(4), pages 834-862.
- Scott R. Baker & R.A. Farrokhnia & Steffen Meyer & Michaela Pagel & Constantine Yannelis, 2020. "How Does Household Spending Respond to an Epidemic? Consumption During the 2020 COVID-19 Pandemic," NBER Working Papers 26949, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
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Keywords
Consumption; Coronavirus; COVID-19; Household Finance; Transaction Data;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D14 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - Household Saving; Personal Finance
- E21 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Consumption; Saving; Wealth
- G51 - Financial Economics - - Household Finance - - - Household Savings, Borrowing, Debt, and Wealth
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-MAC-2020-09-28 (Macroeconomics)
- NEP-PAY-2020-09-28 (Payment Systems and Financial Technology)
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