Food price elasticities (PE) are essential for evaluating impacts of food pricing interventions. Existing econometric estimates of food PEs are often poor, being based on single observational data sets without much variation in prices and failing to utilise prior information. In order to provide...

The main objective in this paper is to obtain reliable long-term and short-term elasticities estimates of the beef demand in Colombia using quarterly data since 1998 until 2007. However, complexity on the decision process of consumption should be taken into account, since expenditure on a...

Spanish Abstract: El presente trabajo utiliza una Aproximación Lineal del Modelo Casi Ideal de Demanda (Linear Approximation/Almost Ideal Demand System) para examinar los gastos de los colombianos en la canasta básica, y estimar sus respectivas elasticidades precio y gasto, a partir de datos...