Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/64800 
Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
cemmap working paper No. CWP14/11
Publisher: 
Centre for Microdata Methods and Practice (cemmap), London
Abstract: 
This paper is concerned with testing rationality restrictions using quantile regression methods. Specifically, we consider negative semidefiniteness of the Slutsky matrix, arguably the core restriction implied by utility maximization. We consider a heterogeneous population characterized by a system of nonseparable structural equations with infinite dimensional unobservable. To analyze the economic restriction, we employ quantile regression methods because they allow us to utilize the entire distribution of the data. Dificulties arise because the restriction involves several equations, while the quantile is a univariate concept. We establish that we may test the economic restriction by considering quantiles of linear combinations of the dependent variable. For this hypothesis we develop a new empirical process based test that applies kernel quantile estimators, and derive its large sample behavior. We investigate the performance of the test in a simulation study. Finally, we apply all concepts to Canadian individual data, and show that rationality is an acceptable description of actual individual behavior.
Subjects: 
Nonparametric Testing
Heterogeneity
Integrability
Nonseparable Models
Consumer Demand
Quantile Regression
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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