We analyze demand for prepaid cellular voice and short message service (SMS) in South Africa by means of a demand … highly, they are as much as twice more elastic than off-peak communications. In relative terms, demand for communications … during peak hours is more elastic for urban than for rural consumers, while the reverse can be said about demand for off …

This paper analyses price elasticities in the Austrian market for mobile telecommunications services using data on firm …-run and long-run demand elasticities for business customers and for private consumers with both postpaid contracts and prepaid … cards. We find that business customers have a higher elasticity of demand than private consumers, where postpaid customers …

-enabled Internet services, whose European takeup was slower than expected. To determine why, we build a structural model of demand for …

individual claims data from a large Swiss insurance company to estimate the response in health care demand to the discrete price … type framework based on daily data to estimate the change in health care demand right before and right after the turn of … the year. We find that for individuals with high deductibles health care demand drops by 27%, which translates into an …

price elasticity of demand for cannabis and implications for likely state excise and sales tax revenues. We use crowdsourced … elasticity of demand for cannabis. We use distances from growing areas to the major markets as a proxy for cost variations. We … obtain an estimate of the price elasticity of demand for cannabis of -0.418, which suggests that legalizing and taxing …

This paper presents a meta-analysis of variations in price and income elasticities of residential water demand ….Information on the determinants of consumer demand is of pivotal importance for the efficiency and efficacy ofpublic and private … policy-making. It is also crucial for effective water demand management. We focus on theapplication of statistical methods to …

Literature on residential water demand is rich, however, there are few estimates of price and income elasticities for … residential water demand in the Czech Republic - which has undergone deep structural, institutional and economic changes over the … last three decades. Specifically, we analyse residential water demand from 1993-2016, when the price of water almost …