This is the first paper to investigate the determinants of the demand for medical care in the People's Republic of … care spending, and price. A two-part model and a discrete factor model are used in the estimation. Household … characteristics and work conditions impact the demand for medical care. Income elasticity is around 0.3, indicating medical care is a …

approximately $140 million or 7.5 percent of current coverage. As expected, tax effects vary with the elasticity of demand. When … demand is largely inelastic, e.g., automobile liability coverage, taxes do not affect self-insurance …

This paper uses fare changes in Mexico City, Guadalajara, and Monterrey to estimate the price elasticity of demand for …

. We then describe the patterns found in the data and argue that firm and market specific demand shocks help explain a …

We estimate the price elasticity of water demand with household-level data, structurally modeling the piecewise … elasticity of demand under increasing-block prices and compare conditional and unconditional elasticities analytically and …

consumers, providing an efficiency justification for across-market mergers. The methods we propose can estimate demand for other …

This paper provides an empirical estimate of price' and risk' elasticities of demand for term life insurance for those …

This paper examines the stability of import and export demand functions for the United States over the 1975q1-2001q2 … period. Using the Johansen maximum likelihood approach, an export demand function is readily identified. In contrast, there … appears to be a structural break in the import demand function in 1995; specifications incorporating this break pass tests for …