The almost ideal and translog demand systems

Contributions to Economic Analysis

Volumn 288, Issue , 2009, Pages 37-59

  Holt, Matthew T ^a   Goodwin, Barry K ^b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Almost ideal demand system; Autocorrelation; Curvature; Meat demand; Translog

Indexed keywords

EID: 84897586201     PISSN: 05738555     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1108/S0573-8555(2009)0000288005     Document Type: Article

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