Since the early 1970s there has been a worldwide upsurge in the price of energy and in particular of gasoline. Therefore, demand functions for energy and its components like gasoline have received much attention. However, since confidence in the estimated demand functions is important for use in...

The recent controversy over the excessive deficit procedure in Germany and France has reopened the discussion over the long run sustainability of fiscal policies. This paper tests the hypothesis of stainability in a group of six EU countries, with an econometric methodology allowing the...

This study examines the competitiveness of four Canadian agricultural industries (eggs, milk, chicken and turkey) using a general equilibrium farm to retail pricing model developed by Wohlgenant (1989). The model generates retail and farm pricing equations that are estimated using maximum...