Toll price elasticities estimated from a sample of U.S. Residential telephone bills

Information Economics and Policy

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 51-70

  Rappoport, Paul N ^a,b   Taylor, Lester D ^c  

^a TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PNR and Associates   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Price elasticities; Toll demand

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002675853     PISSN: 01676245     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-6245(96)00022-4     Document Type: Article

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