TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Cherchye, Laurens
AU  - Crawford, Ian
AU  - Rock, Bram De
AU  - Vermeulen, Frederic
        TI  - Aggregation without the Aggravation? Nonparametric Analysis of the Representative Consumer
        PY  - 2011/Dec/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 6266
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp6266
        AB  - In the tradition of Afriat (1967), Diewert (1973) and Varian (1982), we provide a revealed preference characterisation of the representative consumer. Our results are simple and complement those of Gorman (1953, 1961), Samuelson (1956) and others. They can also be applied to data very readily and without the need for auxilliary parametric or statistical assumptions. We investigate the application of our characterisation by means of a balanced microdata panel survey. Our findings provide robust evidence against the existence of a representative consumer for our data.
        KW  - revealed preference
KW  - aggregation
KW  - Gorman polar form
KW  - GARP
        ER  -