We evaluate the impact of the recent increases in major food prices on the intake of essential nutrients in Lebanon, a small heavily import-dependent economy. Using nationally representative households' expenditure micro data, we derive food demand elasticities by estimating an Almost Ideal...

This paper revisits the issue of estimating import demand elasticities, by considering a variety of unobserved components in international commodity transactions. We use individual importers data on a highly disaggregated basis for a single importing country, Lebanon, to estimate a flexible AIDS...