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The paper lists salient characteristics of the certainty theory of consumer choice and discusses the import of prominent empirical analyses of the theory. All of them reject the theory's empirical relevance which suggests that the theory is unfit to analyze consumer choice in an uncertain world....
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The paper begins with a figurative representation of the contrast between present-day and formal applied econometrics …. An explication of the status of bridge principles in applied econometrics follows. To illustrate the concepts used in the … prescriptions of formal econometrics in the tradition of Ragnar Frisch with the commands of present-day econometrics in the …
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equivalence scales in Hungary may lead to over-estimation of the relative income position of families with children, especially …
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contribution in the area of fuel demand estimation. Especially in case of analyzing micro-data an often encountered problem in … demand estimation is the large number of zero-observations which poses problems for standard regression methods. The study …
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-up restrictions implied by consumer theory, and is primarily useful for the estimation of the demands of several goods of the same … drinks in Argentina, and its results are presented, together with the ones obtained with the other estimation methods. …
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evaluation of the methodological and empirical advances in the measurement of the extreme market risk. This paper argues that a … sustain the rise of financial markets. Thereafter, this review identified the value at risk (VaR) and VaR-based alternative … expected shortfall (ES) as the principal measures of extreme market risk. The deficiencies in the standard modelling approaches …
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This study uses country-level panel data on consumption in Ireland and seven other OECD countries to examine the evolution of Irish consumption patterns as Ireland underwent rapid macroeconomic growth. Consumption levels obviously increased due to substantially higher incomes, but it is less...
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Economic modeling struggles often with a lack of realism. The reason for that is that economic theory for the last 100 years has focused on simplifying assumptions which reduced important aspects of the economic reality. Concentrating on fix-point solutions and external statistical shocks...
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This paper deals with the regularity problem in the Almost Ideal Demand System (AIDS) in terms of the boundedness of the budget shares within the [0,1] interval. The violation of "cointegration accounting" can be seen just as another consequence of irregularity. The discussion of modifications...
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systems, the estimation results display consistency with demand theory, and elasticity estimates are close to economic common …
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