...Sakiru Oladele Akinbode Purpose – Most demand studies have concentrated on the estimation of expenditure elasticities for single commodity at a time thereby not being able to reveal the details of the relationships among various food items demanded by households. The purpose of this paper...

...P.J. Gunawardana Analyses the impact of concessional sales of rice under public food distribution schemes on the open market demand and total consumption of rice in Sri Lanka from 1953 to 1989. The results show that, on average, 73 per cent of the concessional issues of rice under the non‐targeted...

...J.D. Pitchford Baumol has argued that problems experienced by cities in providing metropolitan services might be the product of an uneven growth process. Slow productivity growth sectors, he argues, could experience increased real costs and, unless demand for their service is highly inelastic...

...Erwin Nijsse; Elmer Sterken Applies a modified Keynesian money demand function to household money demand in Poland from 1969 to 1993. Co‐integration between the demand for broad money, income and shortage, despite the regime shifts during the 1980s and full liberalization of the Polish economy...

...Ernest Raiklin This article, making standard assumptions, tests the effect that cross price elasticity of demand has on consumer (directly) and producer(indirectly) behaviour. Two classes of utility functions are employed:one is U = X⊃nY⊃m, which is asymptotically convex and, hence,conventional...