Download This PaperWhen Can a Demand System Be Described by a Multinomial Logit with Income Effect?
20 Pages Posted: 2 Jun 2016
Date Written: May 31, 2016
Abstract
We show that a wide class of demand systems for differentiated products, such as those generated by additive preferences, indirectly additive preferences, and Kimball-like homothetic preferences, can be given a multinomial logit foundation provided that the conditional indirect utility is nonlinear and varies with the whole price array.
Keywords: discrete choice, multinomial logit, demand systems, additive preferences, homothetic preferences
JEL Classification: D43, L11, L13
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Thisse, Jacques-François and Ushchev, Philip, When Can a Demand System Be Described by a Multinomial Logit with Income Effect? (May 31, 2016). Higher School of Economics Research Paper No. WP BRP 139/EC/2016, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2787822 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2787822
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