Estimation in large and disaggregated demand systems: an estimator for conditionally linear systems
β Scribed by Richard Blundell; Jean Marc Robin
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1999
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 241 KB
- Volume
- 14
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0883-7252
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β¦ Synopsis
Empirical demand systems that do not impose unreasonable restrictions on preferences are typically nonlinear. We show, however, that all popular systems possess the property of conditional linearity. A computationally attractive iterated linear least squares estimator (ILLE) is proposed for large non-linear simultaneous equation systems which are conditionally linear in unknown parameters. The estimator is shown to be consistent and its asymptotic eciency properties are derived. An application is given for a 22-commodity quadratic demand system using household-level data from a time series of repeated crosssections.
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