Testing Utility Maximization with Measurement Errors in the Data
Författare
Summary, in English
Revealed preference axioms provide a simple way of testing data from consumers or firms for consistency with optimizing behavior. The resulting non-parametric tests are very attractive, since they do not require any ad hoc functional form assumptions. A weakness of such tests, however, is that they are non-stochastic. In this paper, we provide a detailed analysis of two approaches that can be used to derive non-parametric tests for utility maximization, which can account for measurement errors in observed price or quantity data.
Avdelning/ar
Publiceringsår
2009
Språk
Engelska
Sidor
199-236
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
Advances in Econometrics
Volym
24
Dokumenttyp
Artikel i tidskrift
Förlag
Elsevier
Ämne
- Economics
Nyckelord
- Non-Parametric Tests
- GARP
- Weak separability
- Revealed Preference
- Additive Separability
- SARP
- Measurement Errors
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISSN: 0731-9053