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Shifting wallets: New consumer spending habits

Consumer spending in 2022 has shifted in what, where and when consumers are making purchases. Much of this has been driven by a consumer desire for more control after three years of uncertainty. But with evolving macroeconomic trends, do we dare call this the “new normal”?

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A View on US Housing: Today and Tomorrow

Pandemic-induced changes in the US housing market have been significant. Experts from the Mastercard Economics Institute look at where the market is headed and how consumer spending is impacted.

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Travel 2022: Trends & Transitions

After 2+ years of limited mobility, the travel industry is staging an impressive comeback. Developed by the Mastercard Economics Institute, this report provides an in-depth analysis of the travel industry’s recovery around the globe and trends in travel to watch in 2022 and beyond.

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Economy 2022

Economy 2022, a global outlook report developed by the Mastercard Economics Institute, focuses on 5 key trends and how they may evolve in the year ahead -- savings & spending, supply chains, digital, risk, and travel.

Recovery Insights
Small Business Reset

The global health crisis affected small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) in vastly different ways. Learn more about the outsized impact to small businesses around the globe, including store closures and launches, digital innovation and their future outlook.

Recovery Insights
Ready for takeoff?

After flights were grounded and travelers stayed home in 2020, several emerging trends are pointing to the start of a recovery in 2021. Learn what’s happening around the world now and into the future.

Recovery Insights
Commerce E-volution

2020 accelerated e-commerce around the globe as retailers made the shift to digital. Learn what’s next in the commerce e-volution.

Recovery Insights
The Shift to Digital

The Covid-19 outbreak has accelerated the digitization of how we work, live and shop. Learn how businesses navigated the shift to digital, how consumers responded, and the spending trends likely to stay in a post-Covid-19 world.

  • as part of one of the world’s largest and most dynamic technology companies in the payments space, sitting at the center of commerce for more than 50 years

  • and near real-time measures like SpendingPulse™ drawn from aggregated and anonymized sales activity across Mastercard’s global network, and proven external data sources

  • , with a hand-picked team of economists, data scientists, visual artists, storytellers, and others from across the public and private sectors

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  • that allow users to customize their own pathways and derive hyper-relevant information to address their needs

  • to services such as Test & Learn® that allow clients to test the true impact of their ideas, moving from insights to action with certainty

Insights from the Economics Institute

Our insights can help your business keep moving forward.