Pooling surveys in the estimation of income and price elasticities: An application to Tunisian households

Empirical Economics

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 181-201

  Ayadi, Mohamed ^a   Krishnakumar, Jaya ^b   Matoussi, Mohamed Salah ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TUNIS   (Tunisia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TUNIS   (Tunisia)

Author keywords

Consumer demand system; Pooling cross sections; Price elasticity; Unit value

Indexed keywords

CONSUMPTION BEHAVIOR; DEMAND ELASTICITY; ESTIMATION METHOD; PRICE DYNAMICS;

TUNISIA;

EID: 0037255265     PISSN: 03777332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s001810100126     Document Type: Article

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