Estrutura e determinantes do consumo de bens duráveis no Brasil

• Ano de defesa: 2011
• Autor(a) principal: Fernandes, Marcos Ross
• Orientador(a): Firpo, Sergio Pinheiro
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Link de acesso: http://hdl.handle.net/10438/8538

This work aims to investigate how the structure of the ownership of durable goods in Brazilian households has evolved over the years. The idea is to study the determinants of these changes, trying to reveal the variables that contributed the most to the increase in the ownership of the many durable goods considered. In this sense, this work is divided into five chapters. In the first, a brief review of the recent literature was made in order to verify how far these works have got, and how this work can contribute to this discussion. The second chapter describes the used database, while the third chapter illustrates the evolution of income, expenditures and credit access inequalities along the last 25 years. The fourth, for its part, aims to reveal how durable goods are held by Brazilian households, considering different income deciles and years. The last chapter shows the determinants of the durable goods access and its evolution in the last years. In other words, the work intends to decompose the durable goods access into parts that can be explained by real income, credit access and price. The overall conclusion was that, although still existent, the inequality in the access of durable goods has decreased. Real income, credit access and price have posted different and significant contributions for each good studied. Despite the real income and credit access increase that was observed, households went through intertemporal changes in its preferences regarding durable goods access. Also, households showed themselves more sensible to income and credit than in a recent past.