Computing airfare elasticities or opening Pandora's box

Research in Transportation Economics

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 27-36

  Seetaram, Neelu ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Air fare elasticities; Measurement errors; Oil price; Tourism; Tourism demand models

Indexed keywords

EID: 76749083281     PISSN: 07398859     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.retrec.2009.10.005     Document Type: Article

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