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Understanding the sensitivity of gasoline demand to changes in prices and income has important implications for … income elasticities of gasoline demand in the United States have been studied extensively, the vast majority of these studies …, we compare the price and income elasticities of gasoline demand in two periods of similarly high prices from 1975 to 1980 …
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Daily city-level expenditures and prices are used to estimate the price responsiveness of gasoline demand in the U ….S. Using a frequency of purchase model that explicitly acknowledges the distinction between gasoline demand and gasoline … expenditures, we consistently find the price elasticity of demand to be an order of magnitude larger than estimates from recent …
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The dramatic increase in gasoline prices from close to $1 in 1999 to $4 at their peak in 2008 made it much more … expensive for consumers to operate an automobile. In this paper we investigate whether consumers have adjusted to gasoline price … car markets. We find that a $1 increase in gasoline price changes the market shares of the most and least fuel …
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empirical analysis of firm behavior that compares corporate demand for property and catastrophe insurance (here, terrorism). We … combine demand and supply data and apply a simultaneous-equation approach to address the problem of endogenous premium … decisions. The main finding is that demand for property and catastrophe insurance are not very different and that the demand for …
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We estimate the elasticity of charitable giving with respect to its price and after-tax income using a panel of over 550,000 disproportionately high-income tax returns spanning the years 1979 through 2005. Improvements relative to the previous literature include: using state tax variation to...
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Traditional least squares estimates of the responsiveness of gasoline consumption to changes in gasoline prices are … biased toward zero, given the endogeneity of gasoline prices. A seemingly natural solution to this problem is to instrument … for gasoline prices using gasoline taxes, but this approach tends to yield implausibly large price elasticities. We …
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demand using a novel compensated framework over space and an uncompensated framework over time. Our specifications pass tests … imposed by rationality and household mobility. Housing demand is income and price inelastic, and appears to fall with …
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to 2005, we examine the effects of gasoline prices on the automotive fleet's composition. We find that high gasoline … estimates suggest that a 10% increase in gasoline prices from 2005 levels will generate a 0.22% increase in fleet fuel economy …
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elasticity of the demand for the output and the impact of demand and cost shifters. The use of this framework helps, in the first … way to assess the welfare effects of firms' innovative actions by estimating their impact on both cost and demand. We show …
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demand by residential households for water. It uses the changes in distributions of water using the census block group levels …
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