Welfare, Volume 1: Aggregate Consumer Behavior - Couverture rigide

Jorgenson, Dale W.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0262100622 ISBN 13 : 9780262100625

Editeur : The MIT Press, 1997

Synopsis

This volume presents a new approach to econometric modeling of aggregate consumer behavior. The approach has successfully extricated demand modeling from the highly restrictive framework provided for more than half a century by the model of a representative consumer. Like the representative consumer model that preceded it, the new approach rests on the theory of individual behavior. The centerpiece of the volume is an econometric model of demand obtained by aggregating over a population of utility-maximizing consumers.

The essential innovation is to incorporate attributes of consumers reflecting heterogeneous preferences into a model of aggregate behavior. Heterogeneity is captured by allowing preferences to depend on the demographic characteristics of households. This model unifies the two principal streams of empirical research on consumer behavior by pooling aggregate time series with cross-section data for individual households and provides a new point of departure for future research.

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À propos de l'auteur

Dale W. Jorgenson is Samuel W. Morris University Professor of Economics at Harvard University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: The MIT Press
• Date d'édition: 1997
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0262100622
• ISBN 13: 9780262100625
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 574
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• Personne responsable: non disponible