How Reliable Is It to Obtain Price Flexibilities from Inverting Price Elasticities?

Kuo Huang

No 19335, 2005 Annual meeting, July 24-27, Providence, RI from American Agricultural Economics Association (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association)

Abstract: Food price elasticities and flexibilities are widely used in agricultural policy and program analyses. Most agricultural economists take the reciprocal of a directly estimated elasticity, or more rigorously the inversion of an elasticity matrix at the retail level, as flexibility measures. Conceptual discussion and empirical evidence are provided to assess the reliability of this common practice of obtaining flexibility measures by inverting a matrix of directly estimated elasticities.

Keywords: Demand; and; Price; Analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 6
Date: 2005
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.19335

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