This article deals with the specification of a locally flexible and theory-consistent system of mixed demand functions, a framework that allows for a rich set of possibilities about what is assumed as exogenous in a demand model. A coherent mixed demand system is derived by using the restricted...

The paper employs a multistage Quadratic Almost Ideal Demand System (QAIDS) with heterogeneous preferences to calculate unconditional elasticities for a complete demand system, and to derive energy and nutrients' elasticities for a number of Italian households. A set of comparative static...

The material contained herein is supplementary to the article named in the title and published in the American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Volume 89, Number 4, November 2007.

This article deals with the specification of a locally flexible and theory-consistent system of mixed demand functions, a framework that allows for a rich set of possibilities about what is assumed as exogenous in a demand model. A coherent mixed demand system is derived by using the restricted...

In this paper we estimate the demand for alcoholic beverages in Italy following the rational addiction framework by Becker and Murphy (1988) and using a GMM estimator. To increase confidence in the reliability of this framework we use two different data sets: (i) a time series of annual...

This paper presents the first ever statistical reconstruction of annual tobacco consumption in Italy from 1871 to 2010. The time series of total tobacco is disaggregated into its four major components (cigars, cigarettes, cut tobacco, and snuff), both in physical and monetary term. Our task was...

Questa nota si propone l'obiettivo di analizzare se, e in clic misura, la produttività del lavoro nell'economia italiana degli ultimi cinquantanni sia cresciuta lungo un sentiero convergente. La struttura dell'economia italiana presa in considerazione si compone di 21 attività, il cui livello...