The use of growth functions for estimating developments in consumer demand is already rather old. In many books on 'mathematics for economists' one can find one or more examples of growth functions, however, usually without any economic considerations as a background. Furthermore there are many econometric contributions on the subject scattered over many books and journals. In this book - the English translation of the author's doctoral thesis - , Dr. W.J. Oomens gives a highly unified treatment of the subject. The book consists of two main parts, preceded by an introduction and concluded by an application. The first main part starts with a discussion of the general notions underlying the theory of the development of demand for new consumer durable goods and next describes the many models known from the literature, using these general notions. Because of the unified treatment the author succeeds in clearly ranking the different models, in presenting the aspects they have in cornmon and in explaining the properties which are different in the models being described. The critical discussion of the existing models leads a.o. to a new model, the 'heterogeneous generalized logistic model', in which environmental variables are inserted into the purchase propensity function as well as into the function for the variable saturation degree.
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Publisher
Kluwer Academic Publishers Group
ISBN-13
9789029870177
eBay Product ID (ePID)
107911443
Product Key Features
Author
w.J. Oomens
Publication Name
The Demand for Consumer Durables
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Government
Publication Year
1976
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
274 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
229mm
Item Width
152mm
Volume
15
Item Weight
550g
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Title_Author
w.J. Oomens
Series Title
Tilburg Studies in Economics
Country/Region of Manufacture
Netherlands
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