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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Cross-price elasticities"”.
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A vertical trade model of the international pork industry
… equations for the various markets. Overall elasticities of supply and demand and the elasticity of substitution are used from other sources to estimate the own and cross-price elasticities. Intercepts and coefficients for each region/country are then calculated using 1993 (base year) prices, …
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Structural Change in the Retail Demand for Beef, Chicken and Pork: An Application of Gradual Switching Regression (Segmented Regression, Varying Parameters)
… allows a permanent change in income and own-price elasticities and one which allows a permanent change in income, own-price and selected cross-price elasticities--are found to be superior to a fixed coefficient demand model. The results provide evidence of significant parameter changes …
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Three essays on food economics
… resources" and resource share), and goods-time cross price elasticities. For this analysis we created a unique dataset by merging the 2012 American Time Use Survey (ATUS) with the National Household Food Acquisition and Purchase Survey (FoodAPS), and perform the analysis for three sub-samples of …
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ESTIMATION OF UNITED STATES IMPORT DEMAND AND EXPORT SUPPLY IN A MULTI-INPUT MULTI-OUTPUT MODEL, USING HUMAN CAPITAL AND R & D AS FACTORS OF PRODUCTION (RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT)
… loglinear functions of some income and relative price variables then using, usually, ordinary least squares technique. This procedure is subject to a wide range of criticisms due to its lack of theoretical foundation and because of its implicit assumptions. In this thesis import and export …
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Three Essays Examining Household Energy Demand and Behavior
… equation demand system to estimate household own-price, cross-price and income elasticities between electricity, natural gas, food at home, food away from home, and non-durable commodity groups. Household cross-price elasticities between energy and food commodities are of particular importance. …
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Essays on Price Analysis of Livestock Market
… The first chapter titled ``U.S. Grass-fed Beef Price Premiums" examined monthly retail-level price premiums for grass-fed beef (relative to conventional grain-fed beef) in the U.S. from 2014 through 2021. We found that premiums were heterogeneous, with premium cuts (such as sirloin steak, …
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Three Essays on Agricultural Trade Policy
… that over one-half of the estimated income, own-price, and cross-price elasticities reached a new regime in the post-BSE period of Japanese beef imports where the competitive relationship and substitutability between US and Australian beef exports changed significantly. The second essay develops …
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Demand for electricity: a case in South Korea
… restructuring: (1) What are the estimates of the price elasticity of electricity demand in the wholesale and retail markets, including the residential, industrial, and commercial sectors? (2) How do inter-temporal price changes affect electricity consumption, and what are the estimates of the …
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Essays in health economics and productivity
… that large differences in average productivity across hospitals are the result of idiosyncratic, institutional features of the healthcare sector which dull the role of market forces. Strikingly, we find that productivity dispersion in heart attack treatment across hospitals is, if anything, …
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How Substitutable are Foreign Varieties: Estimation and Application
This dissertation consists of two essays. The first essay examines the manner in which product quality relates to product substitutability. The second essay builds on the insight from the first essay and applies the estimation framework from the first essay to study the impact of the surge in …
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The demand, selection, and health impacts of household energy in Pakistan
… both child mortality and life expectancy, the price and non-price determinants of solid fuel use (using Pakistan as a case study), and finally uses cost-benefit analysis (CBA) to evaluate alternative policies. Specifically, the thesis includes four empirical studies related to solid fuel use …
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Limited Means and What I Can't Buy: Resource Constraints and Resource Use Accessibility Drive Opportunity Cost Consideration
… consider a purchase decision as an allocation across multiple options, and what those considered options are, allows researchers and practitioners to better understand why consumers make the purchases that they do, why they restrain from making the purchases that they do not, and how to …
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Essays on telecommunications demand and regulatory policies
… of mobile number portability (MNP) on own- and cross-price elasticities. Using quarterly data for 28 mobile operators in seven Sub-Saharan Africa countries between 2010Q4 to 2014Q4 to estimate a differentiated products demand model, we find that MNP increased own-price elasticities of demand in …