Examples of durable goods

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Using these aggregates and the stock of durablegoods, we estimate the elasticities of substitution between various consumption goods and monetary assets.
At incomes below $4,000, they cut down on food, durablegoods, and fuel and water expenditure.
We measure the quarterly stock of durablegoods as the average of the end-of-quarter stock and previous end-of-quarter stock.
Section 3 describes the data used in our study and in particular the calculations needed to construct price variables for durablegoods.
In addition, substitution between monetary assets and durablegoods is about twice as large as substitution between monetary assets and nondurable goods or services.
From 1937-1938, investment fell by $17.6 billion ($1992) and durablegoods expenditures fell by an additional $9 billion (about 20% of total).
It is important to note, however, that this may not apply in the context of durablegoods.
In particular, these substitution estimates provide insight into the recent changes in expenditure on durablegoods.
However, the boost in durablegoods spending in constant price terms has not been mirrored by an increase in the current price expenditure share.
Private consumer spending may be disaggregated into spending on services, durablegoods, and nondurables.
As incomes decrease below $4,000, they cut expenditure on food, durablegoods and fuel and water expenditure.
If one wants to include durables, however, our separability tests reject forming a single aggregate of durablegoods.
Prices for durablegoods and nondurable goods and services were derived as the implicit price deflator from the ratio of current to constant price expenditure.
As a result, the nominal expenditure share of durablegoods is unaffected by relative price movements.
Data do not exist for consumption service flows from durablegoods, and so, we must transform expenditures into service flows.
We use personal consumption expenditures of nondurables and services, consumption of durablegoods, and gross fixed investment in billions of 1992 dollars.
Usually, economic forecasters are additionally required to compile predictions for subaggregates of the main demand aggregates, such as consumption of durablegoods and investment in machinery.
As with the consumption of modern sources of energy and certain new consumer durablegoods, such as automobiles, cement was a product which substituted other traditional goods.
Strategies to stretch money spent on durablegoods ranged from making do with old, low-quality goods to more severe strategies such as picking up abandoned goods.
It is the consumer, however, who determines if monetary assets, durablegoods, nondurables, and services are substitutes or complements in demand and, hence, this is an empirical issue.
In both studies, expenditures are measured as the sum of total food expenses, total non-food expenses, and an estimated use or actual purchase value of durablegoods.
Simultaneously, durablegoods showed a relative expansion.
The latter three together constitute the set of durablegoods, but the separability tests indicate that they must not be aggregated into one overall durable good.
Instead of allowing those areas to become depopulated, we should establish light industries there to produce consumer durablegoods.
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