Price responsiveness of demand for cigarettes: Does rationality matter?

Substance Use and Misuse

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 511-531

  Laporte, Audrey ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Addiction; Addictive commodities; Aggregate level data; Cigarettes; Myopic; Rational; Satisfaction; Static models; Time series analysis; Utility

Indexed keywords

ADDICTION; ADVERTIZING; ARTICLE; CIGARETTE SMOKING; DATA ANALYSIS; ECONOMIC ASPECT; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; MARKET; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SATISFACTION; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TAX; TECHNIQUE; THEORETICAL MODEL; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES;

ADVERTISING; BEHAVIOR, ADDICTIVE; COMMERCE; HUMANS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SMOKING; TOBACCO USE DISORDER;

EID: 33644834515     PISSN: 10826084     EISSN: 15322491     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10826080500521714     Document Type: Article

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