Share equations play an important role in applied economic research, notably in marketing and demand analysis. Both market shares and budget shares have been used as dependent variables in econometric models which were partly motivated by microeconomic theory. However attempts of econometricians...

An adequate stochastic model for shares as dependent variables is provided by the Dirichlet distribution. The paper considers two different parametrizations which lead to linear and nonlinear Dirichlet share equations. Using an inequality for the trigamma function the global concavity of the...

Discrete choice models and qualitative response models are intimately related. Usually both are based on a logistic specification. In many applications the two approaches have been combined leading to a 'discrete choice model including socio-economic explanatory variables'. The paper desdribes...

The paper reports on an attempt to analyse individual travelling behaviour by discrete choice models. It shows that among the socio-economic variables 'income (of household)' is the variable which influences the decision whether a trip is taken at all whereas 'age' seems to be the most important...

The paper analyses German import sof green coffee using both descriptive statistical and econometric tools. As determinants of import demand we consider not only prices and income but also the structure of the German market of roasted coffee and two institutional arrangements which had...