Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/89749 
Year of Publication: 
2013
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 4498
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
We identify a natural counterpart of the standard GARP for demand data in which goods are all indivisible. We show that the new axiom (DARP, for “discrete axiom of revealed preference”) is necessary and sufficient for the rationalization of the data by a well-behaved utility function. Our results complement the main finding of Polisson and Quah, Am. Econ. J.: Micro. 5(1) p.28-34 (2013), who rather minimally modify the original consumer problem with indivisible goods so that the standard GARP still applies.
Subjects: 
Afriat's theorem
GARP
indivisible goods
rationalization
revealed preference
JEL: 
D11
C81
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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