Consumption Expenditures in Austria & Germany: New Evidence Based on Transactional Data

Winfried Koeniger, Peter Kress and Jonas Lehmann

No 11408, CESifo Working Paper Series from CESifo

Abstract: We analyze the novel transactional card expenditure data for Germany and Austria provided by Fable Data. We describe key features of the data in terms of the coverage of expenditure items, payment channels, and the distribution of expenditures across regions and time. We highlight strengths and limitations of the data by comparing them to more consolidated lower-frequency information from external data sources. We find very similar expenditure patterns in Germany and Austria. We illustrate the advantages of the granular, higher-frequency information across expenditure items and locations by analyzing how consumption expenditures evolved during the COVID-19 crisis and beyond.

Keywords: consumption expenditures; transactional data; Austria; Germany (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C80 D12 E21 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-eur
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.cesifo.org/DocDL/cesifo1_wp11408.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
Working Paper: Consumption Expenditures in Austria & Germany: New Evidence Based on Transactional Data (2024)
Working Paper: Consumption Expenditures in Austria & Germany: New Evidence Based on Transactional Data (2024)
Working Paper: Consumption Expenditures in Austria & Germany: New Evidence based on Transactional Data (2024)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ces:ceswps:_11408

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in CESifo Working Paper Series from CESifo Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Klaus Wohlrabe ().