Nonparametric Analysis of Random Utility Models

• Tác giả: Yuichi Kitamura, Jörg Stoye
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 010.1 Bibliography
• Thông tin xuất bản: 2016
• Bộ sưu tập: Metadata
• ID: 161488

Tóm tắt

Comment: 54 pages, 2 figuresThis paper develops and implements a nonparametric test of Random Utility Models. The motivating application is to test the null hypothesis that a sample of cross-sectional demand distributions was generated by a population of rational consumers. We test a necessary and sufficient condition for this that does not rely on any restriction on unobserved heterogeneity or the number of goods. We also propose and implement a control function approach to account for endogenous expenditure. An econometric result of independent interest is a test for linear inequality constraints when these are represented as the vertices of a polyhedron rather than its faces. An empirical application to the U.K. Household Expenditure Survey illustrates computational feasibility of the method in demand problems with 5 goods.