Revealed Preference and Econometrics

显示偏好和计量经济学

• 批准号: 1260980
• 负责人: Joerg Stoye
• 金额: $ 27.8万
• 依托单位: Cornell University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-08-15 至 2016-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1260980&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Revealed; Preference; Econometrics

This project explores whether or not we can empirically test the assumption that people make decisions in economically rational ways. The project combines the well-known microeconomic concept of revealed preference with recent results on nonparametric demand estimation. The research team combines new research in economic theory, the development of new computational tools, and new statistical testing methods that include new test statistics, ways to estimate the distribution of these statistics, and ways to construct confidence intervals. The methods are all intended for application to large data sets.The project breaks new ground by building ideas and methods that bring together two very different areas of economics. The results will allow for the empirical testing of key economic hypotheses using very large data sets in ways that are only now possible because of increased computing power. The methods developed in this project will be useful for many other purposes; for example, businesses and governments will be able to use these methods to infer demand for new products from observed purchase decisions about existing products.

该项目探讨了我们是否可以实证检验人们以经济理性方式做出决策的假设。 该项目将众所周知的显性偏好微观经济概念与非参数需求估计的最新结果结合起来。 研究小组结合了经济理论的新研究、新计算工具的开发以及新的统计测试方法，包括新的测试统计、估计这些统计分布的方法以及构建置信区间的方法。 这些方法都是为了应用于大型数据集。该项目通过构建将两个截然不同的经济学领域结合在一起的思想和方法开辟了新天地。 研究结果将允许使用非常大的数据集对关键经济假设进行实证检验，而这种方式只有现在由于计算能力的增强才成为可能。 该项目开发的方法可用于许多其他目的；例如，企业和政府将能够使用这些方法从观察到的现有产品的购买决策来推断对新产品的需求。