Latent separability: Grouping goods without weak separability

Econometrica

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 53-84

  Blundell, Richard ^a   Robin, Jean Marc ^b  

^a INSTITUTE FOR FISCAL STUDIES   (United Kingdom)

^b CREST   (France)

Author keywords

Consumer behavior; Price aggregation; Separability

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002605402     PISSN: 00129682     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1468-0262.00093     Document Type: Article

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