Havranek, Tomas; Kokes, Ondrej - Institut ekonomických studií, Univerzita Karlova v Praze - 2013
In this paper we quantitatively synthesize empirical estimates of the income elasticity of gasoline demand reported in previous studies. The studies cover many countries and report a mean elasticity of 0.28 for the short run and 0.66 for the long run. We show, however, that these mean estimates...