Handbook of US Consumer Economics

Andrew Haughwout is Senior Vice President and Head of the Microeconomic Studies Department in the Research and Statistics Group at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. His research in urban economics, public finance, infrastructure, household finance, applied microeconomics, consumer finance, and housing markets has been published in the Journal of Money Credit and Banking, The American Bankruptcy Institute Law Review, and Econometrica, among other publications. He is a co-editor of the Liberty Street Economics blog and a coeditor of the Bank's Economic Policy Review. In addition to his duties at the Bank, he is a Penn Institute for Urban Research Scholar and serves on the Advisory Board of the Journal of Regional Science. He is a past Chair of the North American Regional Science Council and the Federal Reserve System Committee on Regional Analysis. Prior to joining the New York Fed, Mr. Haughwout served as Assistant Professor and Director of the Urban and Regional Planning program at Princeton University. He holds a BA from Swarthmore College and a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania. Benjamin Mandel is Executive Director in Multi-Asset Solutions at J.P. Morgan Asset Management. He is also an adjunct professor at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. Ben began his career as an economist in the International Finance division at the Federal Reserve Board and later moved to the International Research group at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Prior to joining J.P. Morgan, he was a member of the Global Economics team at Citi Research. Ben’s academic research has been published in leading scholarly journals, including: American Economic Review, American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, Quantitative Finance and the Journal of Economic Perspectives. He has held adjunct faculty positions at NYU Stern School of Business and Georgetown University, as well as various consultancy roles for the World Bank. Ben earned a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California, Davis and a B.Sc. in Applied Economics from Cornell University.

1. Empirical Analysis of the U.S. Consumer: Fact, Fiction, and the Future Benjamin Mandel 2. Trends in Household Debt and Credit Andrew Haughwout, Donghoon Lee, Joelle Scally, Lauren Thomas and Wilbert van der Klaauw 3. Trends in Household Portfolio Composition Jesse Bricker, Kevin B. Moore and Jeffrey Pierce Thompson 4. Household Debt and Recession in Brazil Gabriel Garber, Atif Mian, Jacopo Ponticelli and Amir Sufi 5. Rationality in the Consumer Credit Market: Choosing between Alternative and Mainstream Credit Sumit Agarwal and Marieke Bos 6. How do consumers respond to real income shocks? Fiona Greig and Amar Hamoudi 7. Spending To and Through Retirement Katherine Roy, Je Oh, Sharon Carson and Joseph Marlo 8. Are millennials different? Christopher Kurz, Geng Li and Daniel J. Vine 9. China’s Consumer Spending E-Commerce: Facts and Evidence from JD’s Festival Online Sales Wei Tian, Yang Yang and Miaojie Yu 10. Consumer Expectations and the Macroeconomy Giorgio Topa 11. Macro Forecasting Using Alternative Data Apurv Jain 12. Regional price parities in the United States Bettina Aten 13. Measuring Prices and Real Household Consumption of Medical Goods: Service based versus disease based approaches Ralph Bradley and Brett Matsumoto 14. A Brief History of the Supplemental Poverty Measure Thesia Garner and Liana Fox