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Nonparametric tests of the necessary and sufficient conditions for separability

Jones, Barry E. ; McCloud, Nadine and Edgerton, David L. LU (2007) In International Symposia in Economic Theory and Econometrics 18. p.33-56
Abstract

We survey the current state of the art in the use of nonparametric methods to test separability. We focus on three tests: Swofford and Whitney's (1994) joint test of the necessary and sufficient conditions for weak separability; Fleissig and Whitney's (2003) sequential test of those conditions; and Jones and Stracca's (2006) test of the necessary and sufficient conditions for additive separability. We illustrate the latter two tests by applying them to data generated from Barnett and Choi's (1989) WS-branch model. The empirical results show that these two tests are able to correctly identify separable structure in nearly all cases.

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Additive separability, Nonparametric tests, Revealed preferences, Weak separability
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Functional Structure Inference
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International Symposia in Economic Theory and Econometrics
editor
Barnett, William A. and Serletis, Apostolos
volume
18
pages
24 pages
publisher
Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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  • scopus:84901493732
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1571-0386
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978-0-44453-061-5
978-1-84950-813-1
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10.1016/S1571-0386(07)18003-0
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English
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  author       = {{Jones, Barry E. and McCloud, Nadine and Edgerton, David L.}},
  booktitle    = {{Functional Structure Inference}},
  editor       = {{Barnett, William A. and Serletis, Apostolos}},
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  publisher    = {{Emerald Group Publishing Limited}},
  series       = {{International Symposia in Economic Theory and Econometrics}},
  title        = {{Nonparametric tests of the necessary and sufficient conditions for separability}},
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