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An Implicitly Directly Additive Demand System: Estimates for Australia

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  • Rimmer, Maureen T.
  • Powell, Alan A.

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The problem of endowing large, applied general equilibrium models with numerical values for parameters is.formidable. For example, a complete set of own- and cross-price elasticities of demand for the ORANI model involves 2282 = 60 K items. Invoking the minimal assumptions that demand is generated by utility maximization reduces the load to about 26 K — obviously still a number much too large for unrestrained econometric estimation. To obtain demand systems estimates for a dozen or so generic commodities at a top level of aggregation (categories like 'food', 'clothing and footwear', ...), typically Johansen's (1960) lead has been followed, and directly additive preferences imposed upon the underlying utility function. With the move beyond one-step linearized solutions of the ORANI model, the functional form of the demand system adopted becomes an issue. The most celebrated of the additive-preference demand systems, Stone's (1954) linear expenditure system (LES), has one drawback for empirical work; namely, the constancy of marginal budget shares (MBSs) — a liability shared with the Rotterdam system (Barten, 1964, 1968; Theil, 1965, 1967). To get around this, Theil and Clements (1987) used Holbrook Working's (1943) Engel specification in conjunction with additive preferences; unfortunately both Working's formulation and Deaton and Muellbauer's (1980) AIDS have the problem that, under large changes in real incomes, budget shares can stray outside the [0,1] interval. It was such behaviour that led Cooper and McLaren (1987, 1988, 1991, forthcoming 1992) to invent MAIDS, a system with better regularity properties. MAIDS, however, is not globally compatible with any additive preference system. In this paper we specify, and estimate, at the six-commodity level, an implicitly directly additive-preference demand system which allows MBSs to vary as a function of total real expenditure and which is globally regular throughout that part of the the priceexpenditure space in which the consumer is at least affluent enough to meet subsistence requirements.

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  • Rimmer, Maureen T. & Powell, Alan A., "undated". "An Implicitly Directly Additive Demand System: Estimates for Australia," Papers 266346, Center of Policy Studies (COPS) Impact Project Papers.
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:copspp:266346
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.266346
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    • D12 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - Consumer Economics: Empirical Analysis
    • C68 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Mathematical Methods; Programming Models; Mathematical and Simulation Modeling - - - Computable General Equilibrium Models

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