caa a22 4500 467896003 CHVBK 20180406152804.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170328e20060301xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s00181-005-0012-y doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s00181-005-0012-y Comparing international consumption patterns [Elektronische Daten] [Kenneth Clements, Yanrui Wu, Jing Zhang] When attempting to identify empirical regularities in consumption patterns, their tremendous diversity across countries represents both a major opportunity and challenge. For example, consumers in rich countries devote less than 20% of their budget to food, while this rises to more than 50% in the poorest countries. This paper uses a major new database released in Selvanathan and Selvanathan (Selvanathan EA, Selvanathan S (2003) International Consumption Comparisons: OECD versus LDC. World Scientific, Singapore) to explore several related issues, including the extent to which the consumption basket is diversified and how this changes with income, whether a simple utility-maximising model is capable of explaining the diversity of consumption patterns internationally, the measurement of the extent to which tastes differ across countries, and how the world can be partitioned into groups of countries with minimal within-group heterogeneity of tastes on the basis of the revealed preference of consumers. Springer-Verlag, 2005 Cross-country comparisons nationallicence Consumption patterns nationallicence Income and price elasticities nationallicence Clements Kenneth Economics Program, The University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, 6009, Crawley, WA, USA aut Wu Yanrui Economics Program, The University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, 6009, Crawley, WA, USA aut Zhang Jing Economics Program, The University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, 6009, Crawley, WA, USA aut Empirical Economics Springer-Verlag 31/1(2006-03-01), 1-30 0377-7332 31:1<1 2006 31 181 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00181-005-0012-y text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00181-005-0012-y text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Clements Kenneth Economics Program, The University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, 6009, Crawley, WA, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Wu Yanrui Economics Program, The University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, 6009, Crawley, WA, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Zhang Jing Economics Program, The University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, 6009, Crawley, WA, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Empirical Economics Springer-Verlag 31/1(2006-03-01), 1-30 0377-7332 31:1<1 2006 31 181 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer