Estimating consumer demand for Austria

 

I have just finished two drafts of my thesis, which I’d be happy to get some feedback on

Estimating consumer demand for Austria

Abstract Price and income impact consumption patterns. An Almost Ideal Demand System is estimated for Austria to find expenditure, own and cross price elasticities for 12 broadly defined consumption groups. Results are compared to results from Finland, Denkmark, Norway and the Netherlands. A simple log-linear model yields similar own price elasticities for most categories, except for Clothing and Furnishings which show significant cross elasticities. The micEconAids package for R was extended to facilitate estimation of AIDS in first difference and calculate standard errors of elasticities with respect demand shifters.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/19155359/thesis1ConsumerDemandAnalaysis_JohannesKutsam_draft20130702.pdf

Eurostat in R in GIT

 

I have published the source for the free read.eurostat() in R at https://github.com/toprach/eurostat_r.git

Users of STATA can buy my stata version  from here: https://sites.google.com/site/eustatuse/

 

Update: I have just found out that the rdatamarket library can also download data from EUROSTAT so you may have a look at it too.

install.packages(“rdatamarket”)
library(rdatamarket)
dmlist(http://data.is/PllzbZ)

My impression is that rdatamarket is a little slower than my implementation – but rdatamarket gives access to UN, Eurostat, Worldbank, FAO, and other providers – via a single Interface. I guess I will use my library for EUROSTAT and rdatamarket for the other sources.

There is also a library WDI  to access Worldbank data directly from R.