Demand Elasticities for Different Food Items in Bangladesh

Income Elasticities of Demand for major consumption items

Kashmir University teachers belong to upper sedentary and rich class is not a fact as the consumption behavior shown by them is similar to middle class society. The sample under examination differ in size of the family, age, designation, property ownership and other characteristics; in general we expect the household with above given different characteristics to have different expenditure plans...

Demand Elasticities for Highway Travel

An elasticity summarizes a large amount of information in a single number. Levels and distribution of incomes, price levels of the specific good and of substitute and complementary goods, preferences and tastes, transaction costs, etc., can, ceteris paribus, affect the measured value of any particular demand-price elasticity. The elasticity concept normalizes for the measurement scales (e.g., p...

Elasticities of Demand for Consumer Credit

The price elasticity of demand for credit has major implications for macroeconomics, finance, and development. We present estimates of this parameter derived from a randomized trial. The experiment was implemented by a consumer microfinance lender in South Africa and identifies demand curves that, while downward-sloping with respect to price, are flatter than recent estimates in both developing...

The Long Run Demand for Lighting: Elasticities and Rebound Effects in Different Phases of Economic Development

Price and Expenditure Elasticities of Demand for Domestic Tourism in Iran: The Case of Hamedan Province1

Domestic tourism has an important role in socio-economic development in several ways including creating jobs and improving income distribution. Although several researcheshave been done on tourism demand, a small proportion of them have been on domestic tourism. In this paper, the price and expenditure elasticities of the household demand for domestic tourism in Iran, focusing on the case of Ha...