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Consumption and prices

Our work in this area looks at how consumers respond to price signals and other incentives to change their borrowing, saving and spending behaviour, as well as how different households' welfare is affected by inflation and changes in indirect taxes.

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IFS WP2021/14 The decline of home cooked food

The decline of home cooked food

Working Paper
We consider a simple model of food consumption and time use which captures the driving forces behind the decline of home-cooked food.

14 June 2021

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Prices in a crisis

Podcast
What do economists mean by inflation, how do they measure it, and is inflation the best way of understanding the changes in the price of goods?

17 November 2020

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Spending and saving during the COVID-19 crisis: evidence from bank account data

Report

The measures taken to help reduce the spread of COVID-19, resulting from both policy and consumers’ changes in behaviour, have had major impacts on consumer spending patterns. In this briefing note, we explore how consumer spending has evolved, both during lockdown and in the recovery phase since.

29 October 2020