Tobacco and alcohol: Complements or substitutes?: A structural model approach to insufficient price variation in individual-level data

Empirical Economics

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 539-566

  Tauchmann, Harald ^a   Lenz, Silja ^b   Requate, Till ^c   Schmidt, Christoph M ^d  

^a RWI LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b University of Kiel ^*

^c UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^d RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Complements or substitutes; Instrumental variables approach; Insufficient price variation; Interdependence in consumption; Tobacco and alcohol

Indexed keywords

COMMODITY; DEMAND ANALYSIS; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; MODEL TEST; MODEL VALIDATION; PRICE DETERMINATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TOBACCO;

GERMANY;

NICOTIANA TABACUM;

EID: 84880850209     PISSN: 03777332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00181-012-0611-3     Document Type: Article

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