Search Results - subject:"Income elasticities"

Income, Energy Taxation, and the Environment: An Econometric Analysis

Ghalwash, Tarek - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2006

, rebound effect, energy taxation, tax elasticities, environmental services, income elasticities, Engel Curves, income …

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Estimation of income elasticities and their use in a CGE model in Palestine

de Boer, P.M.C.; Missaglia, Missaglia, M. - Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus … - 2006

part we estimate the income elasticities of the IAS from the 1998 Palestinian Expenditure and Consumption Survey (PECS). We … replace the LES consumption block with a priori fixed income elasticities of the CGE model, that we previously constructed for … Palestine based on the 1998 Social Accounting Matrix (SAM), by the IAS with estimated income elasticities and perform a …

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Estimation of income elasticities and their use in a CGE model in Palestine

Boer, P.M.C. de; Missaglia, M. - Erasmus University Rotterdam, Econometric Institute - 2006

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Output Drops and the Shocks That Matter

Mauro, Paolo; Becker, Törbjörn I. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2006

Output drops are usually associated with major disruption for the residents of affected countries, both directly and often through ensuing, prolonged growth slowdowns. Using a century of data, we document that output drops are more frequent in countries at a lower stage of economic development....

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Demand for Environmental Quality: An Empirical Analysis of Consumer Behavior in Sweden

Ghalwash, Tarek - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2006

the <p> income elasticities for traditional goods are stable over time, indicating that consumer <p> preferences for …

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New Zealand; Selected Issues

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2006

This Selected Issues paper analyzes whether cyclical factors, including the large real exchange rate appreciation in recent years in New Zealand, can account for the rapidity of the recent rise in import penetration, or whether more lasting structural changes, such as the effects of...

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Growth rates constrained by internal and external imbalances and the role of relative prices: empirical evidence from Portugal

Soukiazis, Elias; Cerqueira, Pedro André; Antunes, Micaela - In: Journal of Post Keynesian Economics 36 (2013) 2, pp. 275-298

Thirlwall's law (Thirlwall 1979) considers that growth can be constrained by the balance of payments when the current account is in permanent deficit. The law focuses on external imbalances as impediments to growth and does not consider the case where internal imbalances (budget deficits or...

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Analysis of energy intensity in Japan

Okajima, Shigeharu; Okajima, Hiroko - In: Energy Policy 61 (2013) C, pp. 574-586

This study discusses the causes of the increase in Japan's energy intensity, defined as energy consumption divided by GDP, since the early 1990s. The significant reduction in Japan's energy intensity ceased in the early 1980s and has even slightly increased since the early 1990s, indicating that...

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Balance‐of‐payments‐constrained growth in a multisectoral framework : A panel data investigation

Rocha Gouvêa, Raphael; Tadeu Lima, Gilberto - In: Journal of Economic Studies 40 (2013) 2, pp. 240-254

Purpose – The aim of this paper is to contribute to the literature on balance‐of‐payments‐constrained growth by providing an innovative empirical evaluation of a disaggregated version of the so‐called Thirlwall's Law derived from a Pasinettian multisectoral framework....

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Balance-of-payments-constrained growth in a multisectoral framework: A panel data investigation

Gouvêa, Raphael Rocha; Lima, Gilberto Tadeu - In: Journal of Economic Studies 40 (2013) 2, pp. 240-254

Purpose – The aim of this paper is to contribute to the literature on balance-of-payments-constrained growth by providing an innovative empirical evaluation of a disaggregated version of the so-called Thirlwall's Law derived from a Pasinettian multisectoral framework....

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