Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/119563 
Year of Publication: 
2015
Series/Report no.: 
IFS Working Papers No. W15/16
Publisher: 
Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), London
Abstract: 
In empirical demand, industrial organization, and labor economics, prices are often unobserved or unobservable since they may only be recorded when an agent transacts. In the absence of any additional information, this partial observability of prices is known to lead to a number of identi?cation problems. However, in this paper, we show that theory-consistent demand analysis remains feasible in the presence of partially observed prices, and hence partially observed implied budget sets, even if we are agnostic about the nature of the missing prices. Our revealed preference approach is empirically meaningful and easy to implement. We illustrate using simple examples.
Subjects: 
demand
missing prices
partial identification
revealed preference
JEL: 
D11
D12
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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