Welfare-Dependent Household Economies of Scale: Further Evidence

Christos Koulovatianos (), Carsten Schröder () and Ulrich Schmidt

No 2005/2, Discussion Papers from Free University Berlin, School of Business & Economics

Abstract: We use a survey method designed to capture whether the consumption sharing ability of households varies systematically at different levels of well being. Evidence from Cyprus reconfirms our previous results from other countries, that household consumption economies of scale increase as the living standard of a household increases.

Keywords: household economies of scale; equivalence scales; survey method; independence of base (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D63 D31 C90 C42 I31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005

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