Estimated fuel price elasticities are consistent with reactions following the second major oil shock, having been significantly different from reactions to its predecessor. In turn, elasticities for both sub-periods are not well represented by those estimated for 1960-1982 as a whole

Strict conditions for a two-stage translog expenditure shares model are violated. A single- stage homothetic symmetry/equality model is rejected in favour of a non-homothetic equality model. International own-price elasticities derived from the latter for oil, gas, coal and electricity are...

Three data sets from two different quarterly surveys have been used in estimating six standard models of price change behaviour. Results for Total Manufacturing Industry, for all three data sets, show prices respond to both actual cost movements and commodity market excess demand conditions. For...

Data from the quarterly "Survey of Industrial Trends in Australia' have been used to evaluate whether various excess demand and expectations influences have significantly affected reported price changes in Australian manufacturing industry. For the manufacturing sector, as a whole, both expected...

Determination, from the annual observations on the period 1960-79, elasticity of the request of a combustible in comparison with his price and in comparison with the prices of the combustible others in seven countries of the OECD