IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/h/elg/eechap/15386_5.html
   My bibliography  Save this book chapter

Estimating postal demand elasticities using the PCAIDS method

In: The Role of the Postal and Delivery Sector in a Digital Age

Author

Listed:
  • Gregory Swinand
  • Hugh Hennessy

Abstract

This volume, the result of the 21st Conference on Postal and Delivery Economics (Ireland, 2013), describes the continuing problem of the decline of the postal sector in the face of electronic competition and offers strategies for the survival of mail services in a digital age.

Suggested Citation

  • Gregory Swinand & Hugh Hennessy, 2014. "Estimating postal demand elasticities using the PCAIDS method," Chapters, in: Michael A. Crew & Timothy J. J. Brennan (ed.), The Role of the Postal and Delivery Sector in a Digital Age, chapter 5, pages 65-74, Edward Elgar Publishing.
    • Handle: RePEc:elg:eechap:15386_5
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://www.elgaronline.com/view/9781782546337.00010.xml
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Germán Coloma, 2006. "Econometric estimation of PCAIDS models," Empirical Economics, Springer, vol. 31(3), pages 587-599, September.
    2. repec:cdl:compol:qt2sq9s8c8 is not listed on IDEAS
    3. repec:cdl:econwp:qt1c65s24r is not listed on IDEAS
    4. Roy J. Epstein & Daniel L. Rubinfeld, 2002. "Merger Simulation: A Simplified Approach with New Applications," Industrial Organization 0201002, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    5. Damien Neven & Hans Zenger, 2008. "Ex Post Evaluation of Enforcement: A Principal-Agent Perspective," De Economist, Springer, vol. 156(4), pages 477-490, December.
    6. repec:cdl:econwp:qt9jt389nb is not listed on IDEAS
    7. Ivaldi, Marc & Verboven, Frank, 2005. "Quantifying the effects from horizontal mergers in European competition policy," International Journal of Industrial Organization, Elsevier, vol. 23(9-10), pages 669-691, December.
    8. Richard Green & Julian M. Alston, 1990. "Elasticities in AIDS Models," American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, vol. 72(2), pages 442-445.
    9. Deaton, Angus S & Muellbauer, John, 1980. "An Almost Ideal Demand System," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 70(3), pages 312-326, June.
    10. Richard Green & Julian M. Alston, 1991. "Elasticities in AIDS Models: A Clarification and Extension," American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, vol. 73(3), pages 874-875.
    11. Epstein Roy J. & Rubinfeld Daniel L., 2004. "Merger Simulation with Brand-Level Margin Data: Extending PCAIDS with Nests," The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, De Gruyter, vol. 4(1), pages 1-28, March.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Oliver Budzinski & Isabel Ruhmer, 2010. "Merger Simulation In Competition Policy: A Survey," Journal of Competition Law and Economics, Oxford University Press, vol. 6(2), pages 277-319.
    2. Gordon, Daniel V., 2018. "Country of origin growth modelling for imported salted & dried (Klippfisk) products to Brazil," Journal of Commodity Markets, Elsevier, vol. 12(C), pages 31-43.
    3. Hossain, Ferdaus & Jensen, Helen H., 2000. "Lithuania's food demand during economic transition," Agricultural Economics, Blackwell, vol. 23(1), pages 31-40, June.
    4. Lin, Boqiang & Liu, Xia, 2013. "Reform of refined oil product pricing mechanism and energy rebound effect for passenger transportation in China," Energy Policy, Elsevier, vol. 57(C), pages 329-337.
    5. Metin Cakir & Joseph V. Balagtas, 2010. "Econometric evidence of cross-market effects of generic dairy advertising," Agribusiness, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 26(1), pages 83-99.
    6. Peter Davis & Pasquale Schiraldi, 2014. "The flexible coefficient multinomial logit (FC-MNL) model of demand for differentiated products," RAND Journal of Economics, RAND Corporation, vol. 45(1), pages 32-63, March.
    7. De Zhou & Xiaohua Yu & Thomas Herzfeld, 2015. "Dynamic food demand in urban China," China Agricultural Economic Review, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, vol. 7(1), pages 27-44, February.
    8. Jerome Foncel & Marc Ivaldi & Jrisy Motis, 2008. "An Econometric Workbench for Comparing the Substantive and Dominance Tests in Horizontal Merger Analysis," Working Papers 0833, University of Crete, Department of Economics.
    9. Pablo del Río & Desiderio Romero & Marta Jorge & Mercedes Burguillo, 2012. "Territorial differences for transport fuel demand in Spain: an econometric study," Chapters, in: Larry Kreiser & Ana Yábar Sterling & Pedro Herrera & Janet E. Milne & Hope Ashiabor (ed.), Green Taxation and Environmental Sustainability, chapter 4, pages 56-68, Edward Elgar Publishing.
    10. Juarez-Torres, Miriam, 2015. "The Impact of Food Price Shocks on Consumption and Nutritional Patterns of Urban Mexican Households," 2015 Conference, August 9-14, 2015, Milan, Italy 211818, International Association of Agricultural Economists.
    11. Barbaros, R. Funda & Akgungor, Sedef & Aydogus, Osman, 2007. "Competitiveness of Turkey's Organic Exports in the European Union Market," 105th Seminar, March 8-10, 2007, Bologna, Italy 7888, European Association of Agricultural Economists.
    12. Chen, Kevin Z., 1998. "The symmetric problem in the linear almost ideal demand system," Economics Letters, Elsevier, vol. 59(3), pages 309-315, June.
    13. Lundmark, Robert & Wårell, Linda, 2008. "Horizontal mergers in the iron ore industry--An application of PCAIDS," Resources Policy, Elsevier, vol. 33(3), pages 129-141, September.
    14. Lin, Boqiang & Liu, Xia, 2013. "Electricity tariff reform and rebound effect of residential electricity consumption in China," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 59(C), pages 240-247.
    15. Michael Malcolm, 2013. "Preferences and Policies: An Intra-Household Demand System," Economic Papers, The Economic Society of Australia, vol. 32(1), pages 67-80, March.
    16. Arvid Raknerud & Terje Skjerpen & Anders Swensen, 2007. "A linear demand system within a seemingly unrelated time series equations framework," Empirical Economics, Springer, vol. 32(1), pages 105-124, April.
    17. Preety Srivastava & Keith R. McLaren & Michael Wohlgenant & Xueyan Zhao, 2014. "Econometric Modelling of Price Response by Alcohol Types to Inform Alcohol Tax Policies," Monash Econometrics and Business Statistics Working Papers 5/14, Monash University, Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics.
    18. Juárez-Torres, Miriam, 2013. "The Impact of Food Price Shocks on the Consumption and Nutritional Patterns of Mexican Households," 2013 Annual Meeting, August 4-6, 2013, Washington, D.C. 150636, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.
    19. Germán Coloma, 2006. "Econometric estimation of PCAIDS models," Empirical Economics, Springer, vol. 31(3), pages 587-599, September.
    20. Chang, Hui-Shung (Christie), 2000. "An econometric analysis of the competitive position of Australian cotton in the Japanese market," Working Papers 12940, University of New England, School of Economics.

    More about this item

    Keywords

    ;

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:elg:eechap:15386_5. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Darrel McCalla (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.e-elgar.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.