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Interdependent Preferences, Potential Games and Household Consumption

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Deb, Rahul

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This paper presents a nonparametric model of interdependent preferences, where an individual’s consumption may be an externality on the preferences of other consumers. We assume that individual price consumption data is observed for all consumers and prove that the general model imposes few restrictions on the observed data, where the consistency requirement is Nash rationalizability. We motivate potential games as an important sub class of games where the family of concave potential games is refutable and imposes stronger restrictions on observed data. As an application of this model, we discuss inter-household consumption data. Finally, we use this framework to extend the analysis of Brown and Matzkin (1996) on refutable pure exchange economies to pure exchange economies with externalities.

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Keywords: Potential games; Externalities; Nonparametric restrictions; Revealed Preference; Household consumption; Nash-Walras equilibrium.;

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D11 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - Consumer Economics: Theory
C14 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric and Statistical Methods: General - - - Semiparametric and Nonparametric Methods
D51 - Microeconomics - - General Equilibrium and Disequilibrium - - - Exchange and Production Economies
C72 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Game Theory and Bargaining Theory - - - Noncooperative Games

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