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A Revealed Preference Analysis of the Rational Addiction Model

Author(s) -

Thomas Demuynck,

Ewout Verriest

Publication year - 2011

Publication title -

ssrn electronic journal

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

ISSN - 1556-5068

DOI - 10.2139/ssrn.1865769

Subject(s) - addiction , preference , psychology , econometrics , economics , statistics , mathematics , psychiatry

We provide a revealed preference analysis of the rational addiction model. The revealed preference approach avoids the need to impose an, a priori unverifiable, functional form on the underlying utility function. Our results extend the previously established revealed preference characterizations for the life cycle model and the one-lag habits model. We show that our characterization is easily testable by means of linear programming methods and we demonstrate its practical usefulness by means of an application to Spanish household consumption data.

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