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. 2017 Dec 12;41:e151. doi: 10.26633/RPSP.2017.151

TABLE 1. Research on price elasticity of demand for cigarettes, including study method, type of data, country, country income group, and price elasticity with confidence intervals (CIs), Latin America and the Caribbean, 2014.

Author (year; reference no.)

Method

Data

Country

Income group

Price elasticity

CIs

Martinez et al. (2015) (13)

VECMa

Sales

Argentina

UMICb

-0.15

-0.11 to-0.19

Alcaraz (006) (14)

2SLSc

Sales

Bolivia

LMICb

-0.85

-0.04 to-1.66

Iglesias et al. (2007) (15)

OLSe

P&T

Brazil

UMIC

-0.27

-0.10 to-0.40

Debrott Sánchez (2006) (16)

GARCHf

Sales

Chile

HICg

-0.22

-0.20 to-0.24

Maldonado et al. (2016) (21)

2SLS

Sales

Colombia

UMIC

-0.79

-0.09 to-1.48

Ramos-Carbajales et al. (2016) (22)

VECM

Sales

El Salvador

LMIC

-0.93

-0.74 to-1.12

Gutiérrez (2010)h(12)

OLS

Tax

Guatemala

LMIC

-0.74

-0.61 to-0.81

van Walbeek et al. (2005) (17)

OLS

P&Ti

Jamaica

UMIC

-0.23

0.13 to-0.59

Olivera-Chávez et al. (2010) (18)

OLS

P&T

Mexico

UMIC

-0.14

0.04 to-0.32

Herrera Ballesteros (2013) (19)

OLS

Imports

Panama

UMIC

-0.63

0.02 to-1.28

Gonzalez-Rozada & Ramos-Carbajales (2016) (23)

OLS

P&T

Peru

UMIC

-0.69

-0.06 to-1.32

Ramos & Curti (2006) (20)

2SLS

Sales

Uruguay

HIC

-0.34

-0.15 to-0.53

Source:Various authors as cited.

a

VECM: vector error correction model.

b

UMIC: upper-middle-income country.

c

2SLS: two-stage least squares.

d

2SLS: two-stage least squares.

e

OLS: ordinary least squares.

f

GARCH: generalized autoregressive conditional heteroskedasticity.

g

HIC: high-income country.

h

Unpublished data cited in (12).

i

P&T: production and trade.