Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/142524 
Year of Publication: 
2008
Series/Report no.: 
EERI Research Paper Series No. 13/2008
Publisher: 
Economics and Econometrics Research Institute (EERI), Brussels
Abstract: 
Since the early 1970s there has been a worldwide upsurge in the price of energy and in particular of gasoline. Therefore, demand functions for energy and its components like gasoline have received much attention. However, since confidence in the estimated demand functions is important for use in policy and forecasting, following Amarawickrama and Hunt (2008), this paper estimates the demand for gasoline is estimated with 6 alternative time series techniques with data from Fiji. Estimates with these 6 alternative techniques are very close and thus increase our confidence in them. We found that gasoline demand is both price and income inelastic.
Subjects: 
Gasoline Demand
Income and price elasticities
Cointegration
JEL: 
Q40
Q41
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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