The modern system-wide approach to applied demand analysis emphasizes a unity between theory and applications. Its firm foundations in economic theory make it one of the most successful areas of applied econometrics. A System-Wide Analysis of International Consumption Patterns presents a large...

The stochastic approach to index numbers has attracted renewed attention in recent times (e.g., Clements and Izan, 1981 and 1987; Diewert, 1995; Giles and McCann, 1994; and Selvanathan and Rao, 1994). One of the attractions of this approach is that it provides standard errors for the index numbers. This...

In recent years, due to the Indian Federal Government's and Tamil Nadu State Government's various initiatives and promotional activities, foreign and domestic tourist arrivals in Tamil Nadu are on the increase. This article aims to model the monthly tourist arrivals (foreign as well as domestic)...

In this paper, we present an analysis of the Indian consumption patterns and compare it with results from 23 Less Developed Countries (LDC) and 46 world countries. Results show that Indian consumers allocate more than half of their income on food while consumers around the world allocate only...

In this paper is presented an analysis of the consumption patterns of beer, wine and spirits for Australia using data for the period 1955/56-1985/86. The validity of the demand theory hypotheses demand homogeneity and Slutsky symmetry has been tested using recently developed distribution•...

This paper uses consumption data for eight commodity groups to present a systemwide analysis of consumption patterns in the six states of Australia. The author tests the hypotheses of demand homogeneity, Slutsky symmetry, and preference independence using Monte Carlo simulation techniques and...

This article investigates a number of empirical regularities in the South African consumption patterns. The data support the following empirical regularities: (1) variability in consumption systematically exceeds the variability in prices; (2) law of demand; (3) income flexibility is about -0.5;...

In large demand systems, when the unknown error covariance matrix is approximated by its usual maximum likelihood estimator, the coefficient estimates are known to suffer from two problems: (1) the asymptotic standard errors severely understate the sampling variability of the estimates and (2)...