The purpose of the paper is to investigate whether Spain's accession to the European Union in 1986 caused a structural break in the allocation of total supplies of manufactures over domestic and foreign supplies. To that end the homogeneity-constrained Almost Ideal Demand System is used to...

Maximum likelihood procedures for estimating market share models break down or produce very unstable estimates when the number of brands is large as compared with the number of observations. The reason behind this phenomenon is that the estimate of the contemporaneous covariance matrix of the...

In this paper, we unify and extend the analytical and empirical application of the ”indirect addilog” expenditure system, introduced by Leser (1941), Somermeyer- Wit (1956) and Houthakker (1960). Using the Box-Cox transform, we present a parametric analysis of the Houthakker specification of...

Tilanus's 'mixed' input-output coefficients are generalized and it is shown that the generalized coefficients stand in a fixed proportion to each other if and only if the technology is described by Hanoch 's linear homogeneous constant differences of elasticities of substitution production function.

In de Boer (2008), additive decompositions of aggregate changes in a variable into its factors were considered. We proposed using the 'ideal' Montgomery decomposition, developed in index number theory as an alternative to the commonly used methods in structural decomposition analysis, and...

In this paper we analyse the provision of emergency assistance (food assistance, cash transfers, employment programmes, etc) to a country whose economy has been decimated since the start of the second intifada. We try to simulate the different potential effects brought about by these different...

In recent years, a large number of empirical articles on structural decomposition analysis, which aims at disentangling an aggregate change in a variable into its r factors, has been published in this journal. Commonly used methods are the average of the two polar decompositions and the average...