Household food consumption in Turkey: a reply
1 Sutcu Imam University, Kahramanmaras, Turkey
2 National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan
3 The Ohio State University, OH, USA
Corresponding author: Cuma Akbay, Sutcu Imam University, Kahramanmaras, Turkey. E-mail: cakbay{at}ksu.edu.tr
Received February 2008; final version received February 2008
We reply to the Comment by Drichoutis et al. regarding some methodological and estimation issues arising from our paper. In particular, we compare the elasticities reported in the original paper with those obtained using estimation procedures suggested by Drichoutis et al. We find that the differences are very small.
Keywords: censored models, almost ideal demand System, two-step estimation, adding-up, quality adjustment
JEL classification: Q11, Q13, D12