A consumer demand-based approach is proposed for estimating the shadow price of education relative to housing for households with children in state schools. This approach can be used together with or in place of a hedonic approach in countries where the location of households is not disclosed in...

We investigate analytically and via Monte Carlo simulations the effects of the inclusion of irrelevant variables in the statistical model, on the cointegration analysis of Johansen (1988, 1991). We show that overspecifying the statistical model does not affect inference about the cointegrating...

The European Union's energy and climate policy package is expected to cause an increase in end-user prices of electricity and fuels. This paper assesses the distributional effects of these price increases in Cyprus by specifying and estimating a consumer demand system with price heterogeneity...