Review of Economics and Statistics

The results show that demand decreases with prices.They indicate that if we take a household with particular characteristics and vary only the marginal price a negative relationship holds between quantity and price.While this approach is less informative than that of section 1I, table 4 supports the downward sloping demand curve results rather than those produced in the Rosen framework and does not make any assumptions regarding the household's utility function. IV. ConclusionThis paper develops estimates of the demand for electricity in Medellin, Colombia using a method which exploits the information implicit in constrained maximization subject to a convex, but segmented linear, budget set.The estimates seem…