Italian Household Demand

Italian Household Demand
Author: International Monetary Fund
Publisher: International Monetary Fund
Total Pages: 32
Release: 1988-08-09
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1451956967
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The composition of Italian household wealth has undergone significant changes in the last decade, partly reflecting the growth of public debt and monetary policies aimed at encouraging its absorption by the household sector. Within a theoretical framework consistent with the “money in the utility function” approach, this paper investigates household preferences for liquidity services provided by short-term financial assets. In the attempt to explain the factors underlying those changes, the empirical analysis provides information on the pattern of substitution for the main components of financial wealth and permits analysis of a variety of government interventions in asset markets.

Italian Household Demand for Monetary Assets and Government Debt

Italian Household Demand for Monetary Assets and Government Debt
Author: C. Andrea Bollino
Publisher:
Total Pages: 32
Release: 2006
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The composition of Italian household wealth has undergone significant changes in the last decade, partly reflecting the growth of public debt and monetary policies aimed at encouraging its absorption by the household sector. Within a theoretical framework consistent with the quot;money in the utility functionquot; approach, this paper investigates household preferences for liquidity services provided by short-term financial assets. In the attempt to explain the factors underlying those changes, the empirical analysis provides information on the pattern of substitution for the main components of financial wealth and permits analysis of a variety of government interventions in asset markets.

The Demand for Energy of Italian Households

The Demand for Energy of Italian Households
Author: Ivan Faiella
Publisher:
Total Pages: 43
Release: 2014
Genre:
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This paper studies the impact of demographic shifts, energy prices and climate factors on Italian households' energy budget. The pattern of energy expenditure of Italian households is studied using the Italian Household Budget Survey. The expenditure for heating, private transport and electricity are jointly modeled and the relevant parameters are simulated under different scenarios. According to this exercise, the aging of the Italian population - coupled with the increase in energy prices and surface temperature - could reduce the share of energy-related expenditure by about 2 percentage points in the next few decades and increase its polarization. Energy policies should take into consideration households' characteristics and behavior, and in turn the impact of this heterogeneity on the demand for energy.

Worldly Consumers

Worldly Consumers
Author: Genevieve Carlton
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2015-06-22
Genre: History
ISBN: 022625531X
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This book focuses on how inexpensive maps, produced for the masses, accrued cultural value for everyday consumers in Renaissance Italy, who wanted to own and display maps in their homes as works of artnot for practical use, but for their cultural capital as commodities. Genevieve Carlton considers how and why maps took on this new identity, as coveted and revered material objects and symbols of status and power, which in turn elevated or reinforced the public personae of their owners. She reconstructs the market for maps by examining household inventories as well as the ways in which maps were displayed in the interiors of Renaissance homes. Her survey shows that consumers from every level of society owned and displayed maps and used them for personal gain, to reinforce a particular identity."