Testing the consistency of nested logit models with utility maximization

Economics Letters

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 33-39

  Herriges, Joseph A ^a   Kling, Catherine L ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Discrete choice; Nested logit

Indexed keywords

EID: 0029684544     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0165-1765(95)00727-X     Document Type: Article

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