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Is Utility Transferable? A Revealed Preference AnalysisLaurens CherchyeKU Leuven; Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM) Thomas DemuynckCatholic University of Leuven (KUL) - Faculty of Business and Economics (FBE) Bram De RockUniversité Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) - European Center for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES) February 28, 2011 CentER Discussion Paper Series No. 2011-018 Abstract: We provide a revealed preference analysis of the transferable utility hypothesis, which is widely used in economic models. First, we establish revealed preference conditions that must be satisfied for observed group behavior to be consistent with Pareto efficiency under transferable utility. Next, we show that these conditions are easily testable by means of integer programming methods. The tests are entirely nonparametric, which makes them robust with respect to specification errors. Finally, we demonstrate the practical usefulness of our conditions by means of an application to Spanish consumption data. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first empirical test of the transferable utility hypothesis.
Number of Pages in PDF File: 24 Keywords: Transferable Utility Hypothesis, Generalized Quasi-Linearity, Nonparametric Tests, Revealed Preferences JEL Classification: C14, DO1, D11, D12, D13 working papers seriesDate posted: February 28, 2011 ; Last revised: April 20, 2011Suggested CitationContact Information
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