The objective of this article is to estimate the own-price, cross-price and income elasticities of demand for SSB in Ecuador, as an indispensable step for predicting a reduction in the consumption of said beverages caused by the potential implementation of taxes in Ecuador. In addition, the own-price, cross-price and income elasticities of sugar-free substitutes like mineral water and diet soft...

Advisor: Azzeddine Azzam While technically considered as fungi, mushrooms are often classified as vegetables because they provide many of the nutritional attributes of produce as well as meat, beans, and grains. The U.S. is the largest consumer of mushrooms and the share of imports in total consumption of mushrooms has been rising and will likely continue to The contribution of this thesis is t...

Abstract We use two Almost Ideal Demand Systems models on scanner data to analyze the demand for food products (milk and coffee). Each system is composed of four varying in presence an ecolabel (with or without) brand (national vs. private label). First, we aim compare PL NB ecolabeled products. While PLs are brands owned controlled by retailers specific each retailer, NBs manufacturers can be ...

Technological progress in energy efficiency is generally considered as an effective measure to address climate change issues. However, the expected results of such might be impacted by rebound effect. Employing linear approximation Almost Ideal Demand System (LA-AIDS) model, this paper aims direct effect residential buildings, considering differences for buildings between urban and rural China ...

The two-parameter family of Hermite Distributed Approximating Functionals (HDAFs) is shown to possess all properties that are essential requirements in filter design. When properly scaled, HDAFs provide an arbitrarily sharp high-frequency cut-off while retaining their smoothness. More precisely, bounds on the Fourier transform of the HDAF integral kernel show that it converges almost-uniformly ...

We propose a class of sharing schemes for the distribution of the gains from cooperation for coalition games with externalities. In the context of the partition function, it is shown that any member of this class of sharing schemes leads to the same set of stable coalitions in the sense of d’Aspremont et al. (1983). These schemes are “almost ideal” in that they stabilize these coalitions which ...

This paper presents a model of consumer demand that is consistent with the observed expenditure patterns of individual consumers in a long time series of expenditure surveys and is also able to provide a detailed welfare analysis of shifts in relative prices. A nonparametric analysis of consumer expenditure patterns suggests that Engel curves require quadratic terms in the logarithm of expendit...

This paper presents a model of consumer demand that is consistent with the observed expenditure patterns of individual consumers in a long time series of expenditure surveys and is also able to provide a detailed welfare analysis of shifts in relative prices. A nonparametric analysis of consumer expenditure patterns suggests that Engel curves require quadratic terms in the logarithm of expendit...