期刊名称:IFS Working Papers / Institute for Fiscal Studies London
电子版ISSN:1742-0415
出版年度:2004
卷号:2004
期号:1
出版社:Institute for Fiscal Studies London
摘要:This paper extends the nonparametric methods developed by Samuelson (1948), Houthakker (1950), Afriat (1973), Diewert (1973) and Varian (1982, 1983) to latently separable models. It presents necessary and sufficient empirical conditions under which data on the market behaviour of a price-taking consumer, and a hypothesised allocation across latent groups are nonparametrically consistent with latent separability (Gorman (1968, 1978), Blundell and Robin (2000)). It considers homothetic latent separability and weak separability as special cases.