The revealed preference approach to collective consumption behaviour: Testing and sharing rule recovery

Review of Economic Studies

Volumn 78, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 176-198

  Cherchye, Laurens ^a,b   De Rock, Bram ^c   Vermeulen, Frederic ^a  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Collective model; Data consistency tests; Integer programming; Recovery; Revealed preferences; Sharing rule

Indexed keywords

CONSUMPTION BEHAVIOR; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; LINEAR PROGRAMING; NUMERICAL MODEL; PUBLIC GOODS; TESTING METHOD;

EID: 79953307060     PISSN: 00346527     EISSN: 1467937X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/restud/rdq018     Document Type: Article

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