This paper analyses price elasticities in the Austrian market for mobile telecommunications services using data on firm specific tariffs in the period between January 1998 and March 2002. Dynamic panel data regressions are used to estimate short-run and long-run demand elasticities for business customers and for private consumers with both postpaid contracts and prepaid cards. We find that busi...

Because women typically serve as primary care providers for their children, female labor force participation behavior is likely to be affected signiŽ cantly by the costs associated with replacing maternal care with nonmaternal care. While some evidence of this phenomenon exists in the economics literature, discrepancies across studies make it difficult to provide conclusive evidence of the empl...

A remarkable feature of the crude oil market is a dramatic rise in oil price volatility over time which has been accompanied by a substantial fall in oil production volatility. We investigate the sources of this opposite evolution of both oil market variables. Our main …nding is that the observed volatility puzzle can be rationalized by the fact that the price elasticities of both oil supply an...

demand for farm output is theoretically consistent with consumer demand and marketing performance. many studies have focused on demand interrelationships at the retail level, but not on the demand for farm output. in this study, derived demand elasticities of sheep, beef and chicken were estimated in a complete system of demand functions by seemingly unrelated regression estimator (sure) for th...

In recent years, household survey data from developing countries have increasingly become available and have been increasingly used to cast light on important questions of policy. The refortn of prices, wbether agricultural prices, consumer taxes, subsidies, or tariffs, has consequences for individual welfare and for government revenues, and these can be investigated empirically with household ...