Search Results - subject:"Income elasticity"

A meta-analysis of the response of calorie demand to income changes

Ogundari, Kolawole; Abdulai, Awudu - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2012

inconclusive results. This paper review these studies and employs meta-analysis to examine the potential bias in the calorie-income … elasticity, as well as the impact of specific study attributes on these elasticities reported in the empirical literature. A …

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The Demand for Nutrients in China: A Direct Approach

Tian, Xu; Yu, Xiaohua - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2012

China is experiencing a nutrition transition which is coextensive with its rapid economic growth, and the most dramatic changes can be seen in food structure and nutritional demand. However, the relationship between income growth and changes in the demand for nutrients are still unclear. This...

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Estimating dynamic income responses to tax changes Massarrat-Mashhadi: Evidence from Germany

Massarrat-Mashhadi, Nima; Werdt, Clive - Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaft, Freie Universität … - 2012

This paper provides new empirical insights on the elasticity of taxable income to the net-oftax rate. Using a panel of German income tax return data, we followed taxpayers from 2001 to 2006 to analyze the effects of the German tax reforms of 2004 and 2005. Implementing a dynamic model as...

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Mobility Across Multiple Generations: The Iterated Regression Fallacy

Stuhler, Jan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

Conflicting views about the degree of long-run mobility across multiple generations persist because direct empirical evidence is scarce. Predictions are instead routinely derived by iteration of intergenerational measures, a procedure which implies high long-run mobility even when...

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How does carbon dioxide emission change with the economic development? Statistical experiences from 132 countries

Liao, Hua; Cao, Huaishu - Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research … - 2012

. impact the absolute level of carbon dioxide emission not the overall income elasticity structure of carbon dioxide emission. …

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Is the "Houthakker-Magee" Finding Durable? Evidence from Disaggregated Trade Flows between China and Korea

Kang, Kichun - In: Annals of Economics and Finance 13 (2012) 2, pp. 299-316

reduces the magnitude of income elasticities, disaggregation of trade flows yields different magnitudes of income elasticity …, and income elasticity of differentiated goods is higher than that of homogeneous goods. The empirical findings are … consistent with the implication from the new trade theory. However, the asymmetry in income elasticity (Houthakker-Magee finding …

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Income, Price, and Government Expenditure Elasticities of Oil in the Gulf Cooperation Council Countries

Sillah, Bukhari M.S.; Al-Sheikh, Hamad M.H. - In: International Journal of Energy Economics and Policy 2 (2012) 4, pp. 333-341

consumptions as their per capita GDP expand and grow. Fourth, the three oil-conserving countries also have higher income elasticity …

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Price and Income Elasticity of Imports: The Case of Pakistan

Baluch, Khurram Ashfaq; Bukhari, Syed Kalim Hyder - eSocialSciences - 2012

The paper estimates the elasticity of Imports with respect to relative prices and income for Pakistan from 1971 to 2009. What distinguishes this paper from the earlier studies is the use of robust estimation technique of Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) model utilizing the bounds test...

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Estimating income equity in social health insurance system

Besstremyannaya, Galina - Center for Economic and Financial Research (CEFIR), New … - 2012

TThe paper measures horizontal equity in health care access and utilization in Japan by estimating the coefficients for income groups in a multi-part model which distinguishes between non-users of health care, the users of inpatient and outpatient care. To account for consumer unobservable...

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Global Value Chains and the Transmission of Business Cycle Shocks

Gangnes, Byron - 2012

empirically investigate two channels through which a country's integration into GVCs may increase the income elasticity of its … intrinsically higher income elasticity than regular trade …

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