Explaining Changes in Italian Consumption of Meat: Parametric and Non-parametric Analysis.
Lewbel's composite model for comparing the AIDS and Translog demand systems is estimated using Italian meat-consumption data. Preliminary non-parametric diagnoses suggest that exogenous shifters of price and expenditure need not be introduced into a parametric model. By contrast, the parametric analysis demonstrates that demographic shifters can account for substantial changes in patterns of meat consumption. Although a parametric model without demographic variables performs adequately, likelihood ratio tests substantiate that an AIDS model with demographic variables performs even better. Copyright 1994 by Oxford University Press.
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1994
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Authors: | Dono, Gabriele ; Thompson, Gary |
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European Review of Agricultural Economics. - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE, ISSN 1464-3618. - Vol. 21.1994, 2, p. 175-98
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European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE |
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