Measuring consumer preferences and estimating demand systems

Contributions to Economic Analysis

Volumn 288, Issue , 2009, Pages 1-35

  Barnett, William A ^a   Serletis, Apostolos ^b  

^a University of Kansas Snow Hall ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Consumer preferences; Demand systems; Theoretical regularity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84897760587     PISSN: 05738555     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1108/S0573-8555(2009)0000288004     Document Type: Article

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