Search Results - subject:"Income elasticities"

Minagawa, Junichi; Upmann, Thorsten - In: Labour Economics 25 (2013) C, pp. 153-157

We explore the implications of the generalised Alchian–Allen theorem for the labour-leisure-child-care decision of a mother with young children. In this framework we find: (i) For mothers who work only a few hours a week, a rise in wages arguably increases the demand for leisure relative to...

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The Impact of Trade Liberalisation on Export Growth and Import Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa

Kassim, Lanre - School of Economics, University of Kent - 2013

This paper adopts panel data methodologies to investigate the impact of trade liberalisation on export growth and import growth across 28 Sub-Saharan African countries from 1981 to 2010. We find that trade liberalisation increases the growth of exports, however, imports grow faster by...

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Estimating and forecasting residential electricity demand in Iran

Pourazarm, Elham; Cooray, Arusha - In: Economic Modelling 35 (2013) C, pp. 546-558

This study examines the short- and the long-run relationship between electricity demand and its determinants in the Iranian residential sector. The study employs unit root tests, cointegration and error-correction models on annual time series for the period, 1967–2009. The results show that...

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Estimating and forecasting residential electricity demand in Iran

Pourazarm, Elham; Cooray, Arusha - In: Economic modelling 35 (2013), pp. 546-558

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Demand for port traffic by type of good in Spain : 1995.I - 2007.IV

Coto-Millán, Pablo; Casares-Hontãnón, Pedro; … - In: Maritime economics & logistics : a quarterly scientific … 15 (2013) 4, pp. 444-466

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Slovak economic growth and the consistency of the balance-of-payments constraint approach

Soukiazis, Elias; Muchová, Eva; Lisý, Ján - In: Ekonomický časopis : časopis pre ekonomickú … 61 (2013) 9, pp. 879-896

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A note on parental time allocation

Minagawa, Junichi; Upmann, Thorsten - In: Labour economics : official journal of the European … 25 (2013), pp. 153-157

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Growth, Expansion of Markets, and Income Elasticities in World Trade

Wu, Yi - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2005

The Houthakker-Magee effect implies that a country facing unfavorable income elasticities in trade must either grow at … accounts and/or real exchange rates are much smaller than one would have projected based on conventional income elasticities. … its real exchange rate. Krugman (1989) first documented the existence of a “45-degree rule” under which relative income …

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Estimation of elasticities for domestic energy demand in Mozambique

Arthur, Maria de Fátima S.R.; Bond, Craig A.; Willson, … - In: Energy Economics 34 (2012) 2, pp. 398-409

income elasticities of demand for domestic energy, using an econometric method developed by Deaton. The calculations are made … (elasticities of −0.41 and −0.28 respectively) than candles, kerosene and electricity (respectively −0.88, −0.79 and −0.60).Income … elasticities are respectively 0.45, 0.32, 0.93, 0.84 and 0.69, placing firewood and charcoal as the less responsive to income …

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Estimation of elasticities for domestic energy demand in Mozambique

Arthur, Maria de Fátima S. R.; Bond, Craig A.; … - In: Energy economics 34 (2012) 2, pp. 398-409

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