Price and Income Elasticities of Disaggregated Import Demand in Sri Lanka

Price and income elasticities of demand for red meat in iran 1959-1986

Alternative Techniques of Estimating Import Demand Elasticities

T H E desirability as wel l as the difficulty o f obtaining reliable estimates o f import demand elasticities is clearly demonstrated by the extensive literature on the subject during the last few decades. Interest i n price elasticities o f import demand originated in Marshall's [14] discussion o f the possibility o f a devaluation causing a deterioration rather than an improvement in the bala...

Import Price - Elasticities : Reconsidering the Evidence

Recent economic geography and trade empirical studies based on monopolistic competition [Hanson, 1998; Head and Ries, 1999; Hummels, 1999], suggest high levels of trade price elasticities (between 3 and 11). However, direct estimations of price-elasticities in trade equations, using price indexes at aggregate or industry levels, usually lead to much lower values (around unity). In this paper, w...

electricity demand estimation in industry, agriculture and service sectors and its price and income elasticities appraisal

energy carriers including electricity play a critical role in human societies development, and as the time passes, their importance in the human socio-economic life rises. therefore, knowing electricity demand and the factors affecting on it could have an effective role in economic decision-making. while dividing electricity demand into different consuming sectors, this study uses economic vari...

Trends in Income and Price Elasticities of Transport Demand (1850-2010)