How do consumers switch between close substitutes when price variation is small? the case of cigarette types

Spanish Economic Review

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 239-253

  Wangen, Knut R ^a,b   Biørn, Erik ^a,b  

^a STATISTICS NORWAY   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Bootstrapping; Heterogeneity; Household behavior; Logit model; Panel data; Tobacco

Indexed keywords

EID: 33751548727     PISSN: 14355469     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10108-006-9013-z     Document Type: Article

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