CIRJE-F-327. Konya, Istvan and Hiroshi Ohashi, "International Consumption Patterns among High-income Countries: Evidence from the OECD data", March 2005.

The paper analyzes product-level consumption patterns among countries in the OECD in the period from 1985 to 1999. Estimation results find robust evidence of strong convergence in cross-country consumption patterns. The paper also finds a relationship between openness and the cross-country consumption pattern.