Revealed preference tests of collectively rational consumption behavior: formulations and algorithms

Fabrice T. Nobibon, Laurens Cherchye, Yves Crama, Thomas Demuynck, Bram De Rock, FritsC.R. Spieksma

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Abstract

This paper focuses on revealed preference tests of the collective model of household consumption. We start by showing that the decision problems corresponding to testing collective rationality are NP-complete. This makes the application of these tests problematic for (increasingly available) large(r)-scale data sets. We then present two approaches to overcome this negative result. First, we introduce exact algorithms based on mixed-integer programming (MIP) formulations of the collective rationality tests, which can be usefully applied to medium-sized data sets. Next, we propose simulated annealing heuristics, which allow for efficient testing of the collective model in the case of large data sets. We illustrate our methods by a number of computational experiments based on Dutch labor supply data.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1197-1216
JournalOperations Research
Volume64
Issue number6
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2016
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • revealed preference axioms
  • rationality
  • mixed-integer programming
  • global optimization
  • simulated annealing

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