On the empirical exploitation of consumers' profit functions in static analyses

Russel J. Cooper, Keith R. McLaren, Gary K.K. Wong

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Abstract

This paper proposes the empirical exploitation of the consumer's profit function in representing preferences, and specifying estimable yet general demand systems. An empirical application demonstrates the value of this generalisation and the feasibility of the proposed method.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)181-187
Number of pages7
JournalEconomics Letters
Volume72
Issue number2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Aug 2001

Keywords

  • Consumers' profit functions
  • D11
  • D12
  • Demand systems

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