The primary purpose of this chapter is to demonstrate how a framework developed from data embodied in surveys of households’ consumer expenditures can be used to calculate complete arrays of own- and cross-price elasticities. The procedure is illustrated for simulated changes of ±10% in the...

The aim of this book, Future of the Telecommunications Industry: Forecasting and Demand Analysis, is to describe leading research in the area of empirical telecommunications demand analysis and forecasting in the light of tremendous market and regulatory changes. Its purpose is to educate the...

This book intends to provide leading research in the area of empirical Internet forecasting, demand analysis, pricing and planning. The purpose of this book is to educate the reader about how traditional analytic techniques can be used to access Internet growth and how new approaches can better...

Preliminaries -- and Overview -- Demand Theory Under Review -- Quantile Regression: A Robust Alternative to Least Squares -- Analyses of Data from BLS Consumer Expenditure Surveys -- Description of Data Used from the Ongoing BLS Consumer Expenditure Surveys -- Stability of U.S. Consumption...

Telecommunications Demand in Theory and Practice, which builds upon the author's seminal 1980 book, Telecommunications Demand: A Review and Critique, provides comprehensive analyses of the determinants and structure of telecommunications demands in the United States and Canada. Theory and...

Capital, Accumulation, and Money: An Integration of Capital, Growth, and Monetary Theory is a book about capital. A root concept of capital is developed which allows for most existing concepts of capital to be unified and related to one another in consistent fashion. Such a root concept of...

Premises and an Overview -- Myros and Other Concepts and Definitions -- The Macroeconomic Framework -- Interest and Money -- Production and Investment -- General Price Level and Inflation -- Capital Values, Wealth, and Related Topics -- Macroeconomic Equilibrium and Employment -- Capital Theory...

Frontmatter -- FOREWORD -- AUTHORS' PREFACE -- CONTENTS -- TABLES -- FIGURES -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. DATA USED IN THE STUDY -- 3. COST MODELS USED IN THE STUDY AND PRELIMINARY ANALYSES OF THE 1958-59 DATA -- 4. EMPIRICAL RESULTS FOR 1958-59: I -- 5. EMPIRICAL RESULTS FOR 1958-59: II -- 6....