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Favorable figures on trade or the purchase of consumer durables will drive up the stock market, or rather (to be precise) the stock indexes.
Yet in the 1920s more and more of the common symbols of material progress were mechanical consumer durables.
Instead, it was deemed normal that youngsters spend their money on clothes, entertainment or consumer durables, or that they should save for marriage.
Instead, respondents were asked about the consumer durables owned by the household, such as radio, television, car, bicycle, farming animal and the like.
He also found that people invest in fixed assets and consumer durables in order to reduce their income transfers.
However, one can argue that the omission of consumer durables may be inappropriate when studying longer-horizon returns.
Rather, agents derive utility from the service flow derived from the stock of consumer durables.
Abandoned furniture and consumer durables were a sign of the rapid turnover of residents.
Consumer durables, as relatively affordable portable property associated with marriage and domestic life, stand between these two extreme forms.
Those households owning more consumer durables report lower recent fertility.
Sometimes people leave the labels on consumer durables to emphasize their origins; likewise, empty tins and packets from imported sweets or perfume are left on display around the house.
Moreover, home ownership encouraged the growth of a mentality that placed a high premium on property and consumer durables as economic and cultural ends in themselves.
Most capital share calibrations in the real-business-cycle literature use values of one-third or higher, based principally on inclusion of consumer durables in the measure of the capital stock.
It is the sum total of what people do—whether they stay in or whether they go out and spend frivolously, or on consumer durables.
The greater sophistication of world trade has been largely due to the greater sophistication of consumer durables.
