Publication Type
Working Paper
Version
publishedVersion
Publication Date
10-2014
Abstract
It is essential to understand the consumption pattern of food and how it changes over time to formulate sound economic policies as well as marketing and pricing strategies. In this study, we estimate the Quadratic Almost Ideal Demand System with six rounds of the Family Income Expenditure Survey exploiting the conditional linearity of the demand system. We find that the Filipino diet has become westernized and that the changes in urban food demand elasticities are qualitatively similar to those in urban China, especially for meat, fruits, and vegetables.We also offer some policy and business implications.
Keywords
Demand system, Elasticity, Generalized least squares, Iterated linear least squares
Discipline
Asian Studies | Behavioral Economics | Economics
Research Areas
Applied Microeconomics
First Page
1
Last Page
23
Publisher
SMU Economics and Statistics Working Paper Series, No. 18-2014
City or Country
Singapore
Citation
FUJII, Tomoki.
Is urban food demand in the Philippines different from China?. (2014). 1-23.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soe_research/1602
Copyright Owner and License
Authors
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.
Comments
Published in Chinese global production networks in ASEAN https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24232-3_6