The economics of wasteful spending: The deadweight loss of Christmas …
网页2013年12月23日 · Twenty years ago, Waldfogel coined the “deadweight loss of Christmas” theory in a small paper in the American Economic Review. His research, popular with the media this time of year, has gone on...
网页The deadweight loss of Christmas Waldfogel, Joel The American Economic Review; Dec 1993; 83, 5; ABI/INFORM Global pg. 1328. Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission.
网页The Deadweight Loss of Christmas By JOEL WALDFOGEL* When economists comment on holiday gift-giving, it is usually to condone the healthy effect of spending on the macro-economy. However, an important feature of gift-giving is that consumption choices are made by someone other than the final con-sumer. A potentially important microeco-
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网页In short, gift-giving is a potential source of deadweight loss. This paper gives estimates of the deadweight loss of holiday gift-giving based on surveys given to Yale undergraduates.'. I find that holiday gift-giving destroys between 10 percent and a third of the value of gifts.
网页The Deadweight Loss of Christmas: Comment By SARA J. SOLNICK AND DAVID HEMENWAY * Gift-giving is generally viewed by econo-mists as a source of deadweight loss. In a re-cent article, Joel Waldfogel (1993) provided survey data purporting to show that most re-cipients value their gifts at less than market price. He extrapolated his findings to ...
The Deadweight Loss of Christmas (revisited) – Notre Dame …
网页2020年12月2日 · Joel Waldfogel presented and analyzed this problem in the December 1993 issue of The American Economic Review in an article entitled: “The Deadweight Loss of Christmas.” For close relationships such as a good friend or significant other, the loss of efficiency from gift giving may average about one-tenth of the value of the gift; whereas ...
The Deadweight Loss of Christmas - EconPapers
网页The Deadweight Loss of Christmas. Joel Waldfogel. American Economic Review, 1993, vol. 83, issue 5, 1328-36. Date: 1993.
The Deadweight Loss of Christmas: Comment - American …
网页The Deadweight Loss of Christmas: Comment by Bradley J. Ruffle and Orit Tykocinski. Published in volume 90, issue 1, pages 319-324 of American Economic Review, March 2000.
Revisiting "The Deadweight Loss of Christmas" - David Bollier
网页2008年12月22日 · By calculating the difference between the actual price paid for the gifts and the price that the recipients stated they would be willing to pay, one can ascertain the "deadweight loss," or total waste, that occurs through Christmas gift-giving.
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