The United States has been increasing the import of wooden bedroom furniture from the world to meet its domestic needs. Traditional suppliers have been substituted by developing countries such as China and Vietnam over the past decade. To explain this market structure change, a dynamic Almost Ideal Demand System (AIDS) was employed to analyze this import market. Monthly import data of the top s...

Through this paper, we have attempted to model the demand for di¤erent classes of antibiotics used for respiratory infections in outpatient care in Switzerland using a spatial version of the linear approximate Almost Ideal Demand System (AIDS) model. This model takes spatial dependency into account by means of spatial lags of antibiotic budget shares. We control for the health status of patient...

The linear approximate version of the almost ideal demand system (LA-AIDS) model is estimated using data from the Lithuanian household budget survey (HBS) covering the period from July 1992 to December 1994. Price and real expenditure elasticities for 12 food groups were estimated based on the estimated coefficients of the model. Very little or nothing is known about the demand parameters of Li...