Random Utility, Repeated Choice, and Consumption Dependence

Christopher Turansick

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Abstract: We study consumption dependence in the context of random utility and repeated choice. We show that, in the presence of consumption dependence, the random utility model is a misspecified model of repeated rational choice. This misspecification leads to biased estimators and failures of standard random utility axioms. We characterize exactly when and by how much the random utility model is misspecified when utilities are consumption dependent. As one possible solution to this problem, we consider time disaggregated data. We offer a characterization of consumption dependent random utility when we observe time disaggregated data. Using this characterization, we develop a hypothesis test for consumption dependent random utility that offers computational improvements over the natural extension of Kitamura and Stoye (2018) to our setting.

Date: 2023-02, Revised 2023-10
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