Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/79525 
Year of Publication: 
2013
Series/Report no.: 
cemmap working paper No. CWP36/13
Publisher: 
Centre for Microdata Methods and Practice (cemmap), London
Abstract: 
This paper develops and implements a nonparametric test of Random Utility Models (RUM) using only nonsatiation and the Strong Axiom of Revealed Preference (SARP) as restrictions on individual level behavior, allowing for fully unrestricted unobserved heterogeneity. The main application is the test of the null hypothesis that a sample of cross-sectional demand distributions was generated by a population of rational consumers. Thus, the paper provides a finite sample counterpart to the classic theoretical analysis of McFadden and Richter (1991). To do so, it overcomes challenges in computation and in asymptotic theory and provides an empirical application to the U.K. Household Expenditure Survey. An econometric result of independent interest is a test for inequality constraints when they are represented in terms of the rays of a cone rather than its faces.
Subjects: 
Stochastic Rationality
JEL: 
C14
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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