Revealed preference analysis for convex rationalizations on nonlinear budget sets

Laurens Cherchye, Thomas Demuynck and Bram De Rock

Journal of Economic Theory, 2014, vol. 152, issue C, 224-236

Abstract: We present necessary and sufficient revealed preference conditions to verify whether a finite data set on nonlinear budget sets is consistent with the maximization of a quasi-concave utility function. When budget sets are finite unions of polyhedral convex sets, these conditions require feasibility of a set of linear inequalities, which makes them easy to use in practical applications.

Keywords: Quasi-concavity; Convex preferences; Nonlinear budget sets; Revealed preference conditions (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C14 D11 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jet.2014.05.002

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