3 papers
econ.TH2026
A Frequentist Approach to Revealed Preference Analysis
Charles Gauthier, Raghav Malhotra, Agustin Troccoli Moretti
This paper develops a framework to study the statistical power of revealed-preference tests. With randomly sampled budgets and mild smoothness of demand, statistical learning impli…
econ.TH2025
Consumer Welfare Under Individual Heterogeneity
Charles Gauthier, Sebastiaan Maes, Raghav Malhotra
We propose a nonparametric method for estimating the distribution of consumer welfare from cross-sectional data with no restrictions on individual preferences. First demonstrating…
econ.TH2024
Beyond the Mean: Testing Consumer Rationality through Higher Moments of Demand
Sebastiaan Maes, Raghav Malhotra
We study a setting where an analyst has access to purely aggregate information about the consumption choices of a heterogenous population of individuals. We show that observing the…