Demand for cigarettes revisited: An application of the threshold regression model

Agricultural Economics

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 81-86

  Huang, Bwo Nung ^a,b   Yang, Chin Wei ^c  

^a NATIONAL CHUNG CHENG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHIAYI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c CLARION UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cigarettes demand; Elasticity; Multi regime; Threshold regression model

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS; ELASTICITY; ESTIMATION METHOD; INCOME;

EID: 33644750354     PISSN: 01695150     EISSN: 15740862     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-0862.2006.00105.x     Document Type: Review

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