Search Results - subject:"demand function"

Informationsaustausch und trotzdem Wettbewerb? : Unternehmensverhalten bei Nachfrageunsicherheit

Hornig, Stephan O. (contributor) - 2005

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Trade liberalisation, the income elasticity of demand for imports and growth in Latin America

Pacheco-López, Penélope (contributor); … - 2005

This paper applies the balance of payments constrained growth model to seventeen countries of Latin America over the period 1977-2002. The crucial parameter to estimate is the income elasticity of demand for imports which is done for Latin America as a whole, as well as for individual countries....

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Theory of demand in incomplete markets

Turner, Sergio (contributor) - 2005

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Intertemporal household demographic models for cross sectional data

Blacklow, Paul - 2005

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Buyer investment, product variety, and intrafirm trade

Chen, Yongmin; Feenstra, Robert C. - 2005

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The informal sector and tax on employment : a dynamic general equilibrium investigation

Saracoğlu, Şirin - 2005

This paper elaborates on the evolution of the informal sector vis-à-vis the evolution of agricultural and formal sectors in a stylized developing country economy in process of growth. The analytical contribution of this essay extends the Ramsey theory of growth into a framework that includes an...

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Doomed to Deficits? Aggregate U.S. Trade Flows Re-Examined

Chinn, Menzie David - 2005

period. Using the Johansen maximum likelihood approach, an export demand function is readily identified. In contrast, there … appears to be a structural break in the import demand function in 1995; specifications incorporating this break pass tests for … import series is a stable import demand function detected. The resulting point estimates confirm the persistence of the …

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Using Engel Curves to Estimate Bias in the Canadian CPI as a Cost of Living Index

Beatty, Timothy K. M.; Larsen, Erling Røed - 2005

Semiparametric Engel curves are used to infer bias in the Canadian CPI as a Cost of Living Index. The budget share of food has long been used as an indicator of welfare. We compare households with the same levels of CPI deflated total expenditure over the period 1978-2000. Differences in the...

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Buyer Investment, Product Variety, and Intrafirm Trade

Feenstra, Robert C. - 2005

This paper studies a simple model of buyer investment and its effect on the variety and vertical structure of international trade. A distinction is made between two types of buyer investment: "flexible" and "specific." Their interactions with the entry and pricing incentives of suppliers are...

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Impact of Trade Liberalization on Import Demands in India : A Panel Data Analysis for Commodity Groups

Mehta, Rajesh; Parikh, Ashok K. - 2005

The objectives of this study are to examine the impact of liberalization on price elasticities of imports at a commodity level for broad commodity groups and at an aggregate level for the Indian economy over the period 1993-1997. Liberalization is implemented by reducing tariff and non-tariff...

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