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Purpose – Most demand studies have concentrated on the estimation of expenditure elasticities for single commodity at a … purpose of this paper is to simultaneously estimate the demand equations for a number of food items and to estimate cross … emphasized the need to model food demand in a system of equations as against single equation modelling.  …
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fitted on data to estimate the elasticity of sales to each effort. Subsequently, the estimated elasticities have been used to …
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demanding greater food quantity and quality and changing the nutrient content of their diets. Most food demand studies are based … how the rapid change in food markets and surprisingly slow growth of food imports warrants a new assessment of food demand … availability of nutrients varies with income based on the Engel demand relationship. Findings – The income elasticities diminish as …
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Summary The rise of the East-German economy in the 1950s and 1960s and its decline in the 1970s and 1980s is difficult to explain by neoclassical economics. However; the observed life cycle may be explained by the inclusion of concepts from old and new institutional economics and from functional...
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Currently the use of motor gasoline from year to year increase. In 2010 the number of vehicles in Indonesia about 26 … synthetic fuel which is one of the alternative fuel sources. This research was conducted at gasoline engine. Variations in fuel … mixture gasoline and synthetic fuel. This research will be able to generate and determine the effect of fuel mixture gasoline …
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Abstract Retail and wholesale gasoline prices vary over time and across geographic locations due to differences in … government policies and other factors that affect demand, costs, and market power. We use a two-equation, reduced-form model to … variation in the price of crude oil has been virtually the only major factor contributing to gasoline price variations during …
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fuel demand, make explicit the impact of the underlying energy demand trend, and disaggregate the estimation for gasoline … (for both gasoline and diesel), implying that price reductions do not induce demand for road transportation fuel in the UK …. Originality/value – The paper illustrates the importance of joint modelling of gasoline and diesel demand incorporating both …
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consumption levels. Research limitations/implications – The study is limited to four‐wheeler passenger cars in India and gasoline …
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to trace the historical development of gasoline service stations through to 1956 … business. Design/methodology/approach – A synthesis of historical work on the development of gasoline retailing to 1956 is … significant growth in the number of gasoline service stations from the early twentieth century through 1939. This, combined with …
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of gasoline prices following Hurricane Katrina. Design/methodology/approach – The paper applies three contributions – by … North, Caplan and Higgs – to the question of gasoline pricing policy; and surveys public opinion regarding interference with …
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