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A note on estimating expenditure elasticities in metropolitan areas

Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, 1974
Several attempts have been made to explain the causes of variations in retail sales between geographic areas. The factors manipulated in such studies have included the explanatory variables, the size of the geographic unit under analysis, and the type of measure employed.
K. H. Johnson, M. J. Etzel
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Clothing Expenditure and the Income Elasticity of Chinese Consumers

Journal of the Textile Institute, 1999
In this paper, the clothing expenditure and income elasticity of Chinese consumers are investigated by analyzing the clothing expenditure and income in average households during the past 11 years, their geographic distribution in 1996, and their variation in urban households with different incomes.
Li, Y, Yao, L, Hu, JY
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An intertemporal analysis of expenditure elasticities under three expenditure specifications for Sri Lanka

Applied Economics, 2019
Household income has been identified as one of the major determinants of demand for household goods. In addition, other household characteristics, such as household size and composition are also found to be important factors that influence household consumption decisions.
Maneka Jayasinghe, Eliyathamby A. Selvanathan, Saroja Selvanathan   +2 more
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Income-expenditure elasticities of less-healthy consumption goods

Journal of Entrepreneurship and Public Policy, 2017
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to identify how consumption of 12 goods – alcohol, cigarettes, fast food, items sold at vending machines, purchases of food away from home, cookies, cakes, chips, candy, donuts, bacon, and carbonated soft drinks – varies across the income distribution by calculating their income-expenditure elasticites.
Hoffer, Adam, Gvillo, Rejeana, Shughart, William F., II, Thomas, Michael   +3 more
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Biased tax price or grant expenditure elasticities

Economics Letters, 1995
Abstract Minor differences in logarithmic government expenditure function specifications lead to wide swings in elasticity estimates. The median voter model is use to identify the biases as well as the appropriate adjustments to bring the elasticities into conformity across model specifications.
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Expenditure Elasticity and Inequality Over the Business Cycle

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2020
I analyze a new channel through which real labor income inequality can vary over the business cycle arising from heterogeneity in the households exposure to different sectors in their consumption and labor choices. This heterogeneous exposure has two sources of origin both are empirically documented in this paper.
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Interest elasticity of consumers’ expenditure

1990
In this chapter some new evidence is presented on the subject of the interest elasticity of consumers’ expenditure based on UK data. We find that, although the issue is by no means settled, the weight of evidence does seem to favour what Boskin (1987) calls a ‘modest positive interest elasticity of private saving’.
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Investigating the Income Elasticity of Health Expenditure in OECD Countries

Health Review, 2020
Introduction: The long-term increase in both health expenditure as a whole and its individual components (hospital, pharmaceutical expense) at rates higher than Gross Domestic Product (GDP) has garnered the interest of the scientific community. At the same time, policies for restraining health expenditure have been adopted internationally. An important
Maria MASTROGIANNI, Theodoros KATSOULAS
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The Role of Functional Form in Estimating Elasticities of Housing Expenditures

Southern Economic Journal, 1980
where U, denotes a disturbance term having standard properties and where the f, (j" = 0, Y,P) are constant across i. While there have been discussions in the literature regarding such matters as: (1) methods of measuring Hi, Y, and Pi [5; 10; 11]; (2) problems of aggregation and the relative merits of micro and metro data [12; 17; 19; 20] (3 ...
Gerking, S.D., Boyes, W.J.
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Aggregate expenditure elasticity for transport and communication in Australia

Transportation, 1992
For the purpose of estimating Engel elasticity, one needs to find the best functional form among various alternatives. In this paper, a new function, which is called the double semi-log Engel function turns out to be the best functional form for the transport and communication items in Australia on the basis of the distance function (D2) criterion, and
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