Search Results - subject:"Income elasticity"

Modelling Australia’s imports of goods and services

Beames, Alexander; Kouparitsas, Michael - 2015

This paper adds to the relatively scant Australian literature on modelling the demand and supply of Australian imports. We build on earlier demand modelling by deriving conditional import demand relationships via representative household/firm-level utility-maximisation/cost-minimisation...

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Is healthcare a "necessity" or "luxury"? An empirical evidence from public and private sector analyses of South-East Asian countries?

Khan, Jahangir A. M.; Mahumud, Rashidul Alam - In: Health Economics Review 5 (2015) 3, pp. 1-9

random-effect models were fitted to estimate income-elasticity of public, private and total healthcare expenditure. Results …

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The elasticity of taxable income for Germany and its sensitivity to the appropriate model

Werdt, Clive - Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaft, Freie Universität … - 2015

This paper provides new empirical insights on the elasticity of taxable income for Germany. Using a rich panel of German income tax return data, the tax reforms of 2004 and 2005 are exploited implementing a new dynamic income model. Showing and discussing potential estimation problems of the...

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Charitable giving and its persistent and transitory reactions to changes in tax incentives: Evidence from the German taxpayer panel

Bönke, Timm; Werdt, Clive - Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaft, Freie Universität … - 2015

We estimate the elasticity of charitable giving with respect to price and income changes using a rich panel of income tax returns covering the period 2001 to 2006. Employing censored quantile regression and exploiting the panel structure, the advantage of our analysis is twofold: First, we...

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Is the income elasticity of the willingness to pay for pollution control constant?

Barbier, Edward B.; Czajkowski, Mikolaj; Hanley, Nick - Environmental Economics Research Group, Department of … - 2015

control varies with income. Our model indicates that the income elasticity of the marginal WTP for pollution reduction is only … Sea. Our findings reject this hypothesis, and estimate an income elasticity of the WTP for eutrophication control of 0 …

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The income-elasticity of calories, macro and micro nutrients: What is the literature telling us?

Santeramo, Fabio Gaetano; Shabnam, Nadia - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015

. We consider a large set of estimates on income elasticity for calories, protein, fat, zinc, iron and vitamin A. This is … one of the few reviews that examines the estimates for income elasticity of calories, micronutrients, and micronutrients …

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Re-examining of the Turkish Crude Oil Import Demand with Multi-structural Breaks Analysis in the Long Run Period

Yaprakli, Sevda; Kaplan, Fatih - In: International Journal of Energy Economics and Policy 5 (2015) 2, pp. 402-407

This study examines the Turkish crude oil import demand for the period of 1970-2013. Unlike earlier studies on Turkey, we tested the income and price elasticities of crude oil demand with structual breaks. In emprical analysis, the income and the price of crude oil used as a function of crude...

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Do You Have To Win It To Fix It? A Longitudinal Study of Lottery Winners and Their Health Care Demand

Cheng, Terence C.; Font, Joan Costa; Powdthavee, Nattavudh - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2015

We exploit lottery wins to investigate the effects of exogenous changes to individuals' income on health care demand in the United Kingdom. This strategy allows us to estimate lottery income elasticities for a range of health care services that are publicly and privately provided. The results...

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Do you have to win it to fix it?: a longitudinal study of lottery winners and their health care demand

Cheng, Terence C.; Costa-i-Font, Joan; Powdthavee, Nattavudh - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2015

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Do You Have to Win It to Fix It? A Longitudinal Study of Lottery Winners and Their Health Care Demand

Cheng, Terence Chai; Costa-i-Font, Joan; Powdthavee, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

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