书目名称 | Recent Developments in Applied Demand Analysis | 副标题 | Alcohol, Advertising | 编辑 | E. A. Selvanathan,Kenneth W. Clements | 视频video | | 图书封面 |  | 描述 | The study of consumer demand is important for a number of reasons. First, as total consumption absorbs more than 70 percent of GDP in most countries, it is the largest of the macroeconomic aggregates, thus having great significance for the state of the economy as a whole and business conditions. Second, the pattern of consumption contains a wealth of useful information regarding economic welfare and living standards. Closely allied to this is that as consumption (both current and future) is the ultimate objective of all economic activity and economic systems (mercantilists notwithstanding), in a fundamental sense consumption patterns are an objective way of measuring and assessing economic performance. Finally, an understanding of the price-responsiveness of consumption is of crucial importance for a host of microeconomic policy issues including public-utility pricing, the measurement of distortions, optimal taxation and the treatment of externalities. The analysis of consumer demand is one of the major successes of economics as it represents the near perfect marriage of theory and econometrics, a situation almost unparalleled in any other field of economics. This field has attract | 出版日期 | Book 1995 | 关键词 | Advertising; Konsumgewohnheiten; Nachfrage; consumption patterns; demand; econometrics; Ökonometrie | 版次 | 1 | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-85205-3 | isbn_softcover | 978-3-642-85207-7 | isbn_ebook | 978-3-642-85205-3 | copyright | Springer-Verlag Berlin · Heidelberg 1995 |
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