Search Results - subject:"Income elasticity"

Measuring income elasticity for Swiss money demand : what do the cantons say about financial innovation?

Fischer, Andreas M. - 2005

studies and others, however, find that the income elasticity is greater than one. Such parameter estimates are difficult to … reconcile with transactions demand theory. This study re-examines the estimates for income elasticity in money demand based on …. The cross-cantonal results find that the income elasticity lies between 0.4 and 0.6. This discrepancy between the two …

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Estimating Elasticities for U.S. Trade in Services

Marquez, Jaime R. - 2005

in elasticities: the income elasticity for imports being larger than the income elasticity for exports. Such …. First, the income elasticity for U.S. exports of services is significantly greater than the income elasticity for U …

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Housing Policy in Developing Countries : Conjectures and Refutations

Buckley, Robert M.; Kalarickal, Jerry - In: World Bank Research Observer 20 (2005) 2, pp. 233-258

This article discusses housing policy in developing economies. It examines recent research findings in light of earlier arguments as to the benefits of more market-oriented approaches. It also looks at whether the recommendations of earlier work have been refuted or developed in subsequent...

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The Income Elasticity of Money Demand : A Meta-Analysis of Empirical Results

Knell, Markus; Stix, Helmut - 2005

findings about the income elasticity of money demand. Our results suggest that the broadness of the monetary aggregate, the …

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Fuel Choices in Rural Maharashtra

Stern, David I.; Gregory, Jack - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2012

Traditional biomass remains a large source of energy in developing countries, particular in rural areas. Use of biomass can contribute to deforestation and hence climate change as well as indoor air pollution. Therefore, significant efforts have been made to improve the efficiency with which it...

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The income elasticity of health care spending in developing and developed countries

Farag, Marwa; NandaKumar, A.; Wallack, Stanley; … - In: International Journal of Health Care Finance and Economics 12 (2012) 2, pp. 145-162

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Lead–lag relationship between household cultural expenditures and business cycles

Katsuura, Masaki - In: Journal of Cultural Economics 36 (2012) 1, pp. 49-65

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Testing and estimating time-varying elasticities of Swiss gasoline demand

Neto, David - In: Energy Economics 34 (2012) 6, pp. 1755-1762

This paper is intended to test and estimate time-varying elasticities for gasoline demand in Switzerland. For this purpose, a smooth time-varying cointegrating parameters model is investigated in order to describe smooth mutations of the Swiss gasoline demand. The methodology, based on Chebyshev...

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Estimating the permanent income elasticity of government expenditures: Evidence on Wagner's law based on oil price shocks

Brückner, Markus; Chong, Alberto; Gradstein, Mark - In: Journal of Public Economics 96 (2012) 11, pp. 1025-1035

This paper provides instrumental variable estimates of the permanent income elasticity of government expenditures. It … income elasticity are robust across alternative specifications and are below one: the estimated elasticity coefficients range …

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The changing demand for energy in rich and poor countries over 25years

Seale, James L.; Solano, Alexis A. - In: Energy Economics 34 (2012) 6, pp. 1834-1844

Country-specific income and own-price elasticities of demand for private consumption of energy are compared across time and affluence for 43 countries that participated in the 1980, 1996, and 2005 International Comparison Program based on estimates from a ten-good-demand system. Results indicate...

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