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Does the Stochastic Specification of the Linear Expenditure System Matter?

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  • Denis Conniffe

    (NIRSA and NUI, Maynooth)

  • John Eakins

    (The Economic and Social Research Institute, Dublin)

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When “income” in a system of demand equations is defined as total expenditure, actual expenditure on any commodity must lie between zero and income, or equivalently, budget shares must lie between zero and one. But models for expenditures or shares are often the sum of deterministic components (predicted values), which are functions of prices and income, and disturbances, usually assumed multivariate normal. The predicted values ought to satisfy the same bounds as the dependent variables and will do so if the demand system is “regular”. But even then, the situation is theoretically inconsistent with unbounded disturbances and it has been proposed (Fry et al., 1996) that analysis be appropriately modified. In assessing how much practical difference this makes, the linear expenditure system (LES) is, for reasons described in the paper, the crucial case. We compare estimation methods for the LES, using Irish data from 1979-99 on some broadly defined commodities, and find that the differences are not of practical concern.

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  • Denis Conniffe & John Eakins, 2003. "Does the Stochastic Specification of the Linear Expenditure System Matter?," The Economic and Social Review, Economic and Social Studies, vol. 34(1), pages 23-32.
    • Handle: RePEc:eso:journl:v:34:y:2003:i:1:p:23-32
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    1. Cristian Ricardo Nogales Carvajal, 2009. "Un sistema lineal de gasto: identificando patrones de consumo de alimentos en Bolivia," Investigación & Desarrollo 0109, Universidad Privada Boliviana, revised Jan 2009.
    2. Darwin Cortes & Jorge Perez, 2010. "El Consumo de los Hogares Colombianos, 2006-2007: Estimación de Sistemas de Demanda," REVISTA DESARROLLO Y SOCIEDAD, UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES-CEDE, December.
    3. R. A. Somerville, 2004. "Changes in Relative Consumer Prices and the Substitution Bias of the Laspeyres Price Index - Ireland, 1985-2001," The Economic and Social Review, Economic and Social Studies, vol. 35(1), pages 55-82.
    4. Jorge Talero Bernal, 2016. "Una comparación del gasto por tres niveles de ingreso para Colombia bajo una estimación del sistema de ecuaciones de demanda Working y Leser y del Sistema Lineal de Gasto Extendido 2008," REVISTA CIFE, UNIVERSIDAD SANTO TOMÁS, March.

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