Effect of price on the demand for durables: Modeling, estimation, and findings

Journal of Business and Economic Statistics

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 1990, Pages 163-170

  Jain, Dipak C ^a   Rao, Ram C ^b  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Consumer durables; Diffusion model; Nonlinear least squares; Price elasticity

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001023868     PISSN: 07350015     EISSN: 15372707     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07350015.1990.10509787     Document Type: Article

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