Is Illicit Tobacco Demand Sensitive to Relative Price?

Economic Papers

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 1-9

  Farrell, Lisa ^a   Fry, Tim R L ^a  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

illicit tobacco; ordered probit; price response

Indexed keywords

EID: 85009916306     PISSN: 08120439     EISSN: 17593441     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1759-3441.12022     Document Type: Article

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