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Income distribution and aggregation/disaggregation biases in the measurement of consumer demand elasticities

Abstract

We investigate the issue of aggregation and disaggregation biases in demand elasticities. Drawing on income distribution data for seven countries we calculate the likely range of differences between elasticities evaluated at average income and corresponding aggregate average elasticities.

Authors

Denton FT; Mountain DC

Journal

Economics Letters, Vol. 73, No. 1, pp. 21–28

Publisher

Elsevier

Publication Date

10 2001

DOI

10.1016/s0165-1765(01)00461-x

ISSN

0165-1765