Measuring the Welfare Effects of Price Changes: A Convenient Parametric Approach

John Creedy

No 536, Department of Economics - Working Papers Series from The University of Melbourne

Abstract: This paper describes a method of estimating the welfare effects of a set of price changes, using money measures of welfare change such as compensating and equivalent variations, and the associated concept of "equivalent income".

Keywords: EVALUATION; PRICES; SOCIAL WELFARE (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E10 I31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 34 pages
Date: 1996
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (5)

There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it.

Related works:
Journal Article: Measuring the Welfare Effects of Price Changes: A Convenient Parametric Approach (1998)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:mlb:wpaper:536

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Department of Economics - Working Papers Series from The University of Melbourne Department of Economics, The University of Melbourne, 4th Floor, FBE Building, Level 4, 111 Barry Street. Victoria, 3010, Australia. Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Dandapani Lokanathan ().