no code implementations • 14 May 2024 • Joshua Lanier, John K. -H. Quah
Goodness-of-fit indices are typically generated by loss functions and we find that standard loss functions usually do not yield a best-fitting utility function when they are minimized.
no code implementations • 14 May 2024 • Paweł Dziewulski, Joshua Lanier, John K. -H. Quah
Afriat's Theorem (1967) states that a dataset can be thought of as being generated by a consumer maximizing a continuous and increasing utility function if and only if it is free of revealed preference cycles containing a strict relation.
no code implementations • 7 Apr 2024 • Joshua Lanier, Matthew Polisson, John K. -H. Quah
The standard criterion of rationality in economics is the maximization of a utility function that is stable across multiple observations of an agent's choice behavior.
no code implementations • 1 Jun 2022 • Eddie Dekel, John K. -H. Quah, Ludvig Sinander
We develop a theory of monotone comparative statics for models with adjustment costs.
no code implementations • 11 Jan 2022 • John K. -H. Quah, Gerelt Tserenjigmid
We explore heterogenous prices as a source of heterogenous or stochastic demand.
1 code implementation • 8 Jan 2018 • Rahul Deb, Yuichi Kitamura, John K. -H. Quah, Jörg Stoye
We develop a novel test of linear hypotheses on partially identified parameters to estimate the proportion of the population who are revealed better off due to a price change in the latter application.