Demand for international telecommunication Time-varying price elasticity

Journal of Econometrics

Volumn 70, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 243-260

  Hackl, Peter ^a   Westlund, Anders H ^b  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Austria)

^b STOCKHOLM SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Kalman filtering; Moving local regression; Price elasticity; Structural change; Telecommunication demand

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001391246     PISSN: 03044076     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0304-4076(94)01691-7     Document Type: Article

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