Whereas a large number of empirical studies have been devoted to analysing consumer demand for specific products, much less attention has been paid to the household?s demand for product variety (the number of different products consumed in a specific time period). This paper analyses consumer...

The present study examines family and farm characteristics affecting the choice and the timing of intergenerational farm transfers. Using survey data which are linked to accounting data for 272 farms in Northern Germany, we use a probit approach to examine whether specific farm and family...

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Drawing on household budget data from the German Income and Consumption Surveys of 1988 and 1993, we estimate demographicaily structured Quadratic Expenditure Systems. Both Full Information Maximum Likelihood methods and a Limited Information approach as proposed recently by Ding and Hadri...