Testing for the significance of violations of afriat's inequalities

Journal of Business and Economic Statistics

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 355-362

  Fleissig, Adrian R ^a   Whitney, Gerald A ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW ORLEANS   (United States)

Author keywords

Generalized axiom of revealed preference; Revealed preference violations with measurement error

Indexed keywords

EID: 22544455988     PISSN: 07350015     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/073500104000000253     Document Type: Article

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