This paper analyzes a household’s leisure expenditure by exploring data on Korean urban households and provides policy implications. Among the major findings from quantitative analyses are the significant correlations between leisure consumption and disposable income, and between leisure...

This study aimed to analyze the demand for gasoline C in Minas Gerais, from January 2002 to December 2010. The results suggested that gasoline demand is influenced by the C of C gasoline prices and ethanol and the consumer’s income. It was found that demand was inelastic to the price of...

Gum arabic is mainly produced from two Acacias that are found in the gum belt of Sub-Saharan Africa. These are Acacia senegal that produces high quality gum and Acacia seyal that produces low quality gum. In recent years the gum market structure has changed and Sudan lost its near monopoly...

The primary objective of this study is to predict Puerto Rican consumer’s willingness to pay a premium for ethnic produce. Particularly, this paper analyzes the effects of Puerto Rican consumers’ socio-economic characteristics and their expressed value judgments on their...

We investigate competitiveness and price behaviour in the Israeli citrus export sector following the removal of the government export monopoly and the entry of private export companies in 1991. We identify asymmetric price transmission for some exporters even in the liberalized market which only...

Federal subsidies for nonprice export promotion of farm products have been criticized on the grounds that they merely substitute taxpayer dollars for private promotional expenditures. This ‘‘displacement hypothesis’’ is tested by estimating export demand and...