Microeconometric models of infrequently purchased goods: An application to household pork consumption

Empirical Economics

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 513-533

  Su, Shew Jiuan B ^a   Yen, Steven T ^b  

^a NATIONAL KAOHSIUNG NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Double hurdle model; Heteroskedasticity; Infrequency of purchase; Inverse hyperbolic sine; Nationwide Food Consumption Survey; Pork consumption

Indexed keywords

EID: 0006598874     PISSN: 03777332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF01180699     Document Type: Article

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