Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/307185 
Year of Publication: 
2024
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 17361
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
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.
Subjects: 
consumption expenditures
transactional data
Austria
Germany
COVID-19
JEL: 
C80
D12
E21
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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