Discussion Papers are a series of manuscripts in their draft form. They are not intended for circulation or distribution except as indicated by the author. For that reason Discussion Papers may not be reproduced or distributed without the written consent of the author. Abstract This paper analyzes the responsiveness of Thai outbound tourism to East Asian destinations, to changes in effective re...

FOREWORD This study analyzes U.S. consumer budget allocations among 11 agg1 egate commodity groups for the period 1948-78. Also budget allocations among four food groups are analyzed for this same period. Several alternative model specifications are analyzed. Emphasis is given to the Deaton-Muellbauer (1980a) "almost ideal demand system." A dynamic version of their model is developed and quanti...

This paper represents a dynamic specification of the Almost Ideal Demand System (AIDS) based on recent developments on cointegration techniques and error correction models. Based on Greek meat consumption data over the period 1958–1993, it was found that the proposed formulation performs well on both theoretical and statistical grounds, as the theoretical properties of homogeneity and symmetry ...

A quarterly, weakly-separable, Quadratic, Almost Ideal Demand System is estimated for beef, pork and chicken in Canada. The restrictions that would lead to the less flexible AIDS model were rejected at the five per cent level. Results for the first stage model indicated that demand for the meat group is inelastic, with an own-price elasticity of -0.24. Demand for beef in Canada was inelastic du...

In this paper, using equi-ideal convergence, we introduce a non-trivial generalization of the classical and the statistical cases of the Korovkin approximation theorem. We also compute the rates of equi-ideal convergence of sequences of positive linear operators. Furthermore, we obtain a Voronovskaya-type theorem in the equi-ideal sense for a sequence of positive linear operators constructed by...

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Correspondence: homidan@kfupm. edu.sa Department of Mathematics and Statistics, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran 31261, P. O. Box 119, Saudi Arabia Abstract Hankel operators and Hankel transforms are required in a number of applications. This article proves a number of theorems that efficiently and accurately approximates a function using Hankel transforms and Hankel sum....