Search Results - subject:"Income elasticity"

Yohe, Gary W.; Tol, Richard S. J.; Anthoff, David - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 3 (2009) 2009-24, pp. 1-22

It is well-known that the discount rate is crucially important for estimating the social cost of carbon, a standard indicator for the seriousness of climate change and desirable level of climate policy. The Ramsey equation for the discount rate has three components: the pure rate of time...

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More or better? Measuring quality versus quantity in food consumption

Manig, Corinna; Moneta, Alessio - 2009

As people become richer they get the opportunity of consuming more but also qualitatively better goods. This holds for a basic commodity like food as well. We investigate food consumption in Russia, taking into account both expenditure and nutrition value in terms of calories. We analyze how...

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Elasticities of Turkish Exports and Imports

Oğuş Binatlı, Ayla; Sohrabji, Niloufer - 2009

primary factors identified in the rising deficits is the appreciating lira. In addition, income elasticity of exports and … imports can also shed light on continuing trade deficits. In this paper we analyze exchange rate and income elasticity of …

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Discounting for climate change

Anthoff, David; Tol, Richard S. J.; Yohe, Gary W. - 2009

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Is the US Demand for Money Unstable?

Rao, B. Bhaskara; Kumar, Saten - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

extended specification showed that there has been a structural change in 1998 and the constraint that income elasticity is …

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Reported Taxable Income and Marginal Tax Rates: Evidence for Spain Based on the Fiscal Drag

Jorge Onrubia?Fernández; José Félix Sanz?Sanz - Department of Economics, Faculty of Business and Economics - 2009

This paper quantifies the taxable income-marginal tax rate elasticities associated with Spanish Personal Income Tax. To that effect, according to Saez (2003), the fiscal drag between 1993 and 1994 was used as an instrument to identify the changes in the taxable income induced by changes in the...

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Rich Dad, Smart Dad: Decomposing the Intergenerational Transmission of Income

Lefgren, Lars; Lindquist, Matthew; Sims, David - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Stockholms Universitet - 2009

sample of Swedish sons and their fathers, we show that only a minority of the intergenerational income elasticity can be …We construct a simple model, consistent with Becker and Tomes (1979), that decomposes the intergenerational income … elasticity into the causal effect of financial resources, the mechanistic transmission of human capital, and the role that human …

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More or Better ? Measuring Quality versus Quantity in Food Consumption

Manig, Corinna; Moneta, Alessio - Laboratory of Economics and Management (LEM), Scuola … - 2009

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Discounting for Climate Change

Anthoff, David; Tol, Richard S. J.; Yohe, Gary W. - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2009

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Health care expenditure and GDP: An international panel smooth transition approach

Chakroun, Mohamed - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

In this paper, we investigate the potential threshold effects in the relationship between national expenditures on health care and national income. Using a panel threshold regression model, we derive country-specific and time-specific income elasticities for 17 OECD countries over the period...

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