A test for weakly separable preferences

John Quah

No 708, Economics Series Working Papers from University of Oxford, Department of Economics

Abstract: We identify necessary and sufficient conditions under which a finite data set of price vectors and consumption bundles can be rationalized by a weakly separable utility function. Our result could be understood as a generalization of Afriat's Theorem.

Keywords: Afriat's Theorem; utility function; revealed preference; generalized axiom (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C14 C60 C61 D11 D12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014-05-21
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