CIRJE-F-327 "International Consumption Patterns among High-income Countries: Evidence from the OECD data"
Author Name Konya, Istvan and Hiroshi Ohashi
Date March 2005
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Remarks Subsequently published in Review of International Economics, 2007, 15(4), 744-757.
Abstract

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