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Nonparametric tests of the necessary and sufficient conditions for separability

Barry E. Jones, Nadine McCloud, David L. Edgerton

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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.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationFunctional Structure Inference
Editors/authorsWilliam A. Barnett , Apostolos Serletis
PublisherEmerald Group Publishing Limited
Pages33-56
Number of pages24
Volume18
ISBN (Electronic)978-1-84950-813-1
ISBN (Print)978-0-44453-061-5
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2007 Jul 23

Publication series

NameInternational Symposia in Economic Theory and Econometrics
Volume18
ISSN (Print)1571-0386

Subject classification (UKÄ)

  • Economics

Free keywords

  • Additive separability
  • Nonparametric tests
  • Revealed preferences
  • Weak separability

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