• Title of article

    Intertemporal substitution and nonhomothetic preferences

  • Author/Authors

    Masakatsu Okubo، نويسنده ,

  • Issue Information
    روزنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2008
  • Pages
    7
  • From page
    41
  • To page
    47
  • Abstract
    This study uses a model with nonseparable and nonhomothetic preferences to estimate the intertemporal elasticity of substitution (IES). We show that, while the assumption of homotheticity is strongly rejected, the estimated IES is positive and significant
  • Keywords
    cointegration , Nonhomothetic preferences , Intertemporal elasticity of substitution , Generalized method of moments
  • Journal title
    Economics Letters
  • Serial Year
    2008
  • Journal title
    Economics Letters
  • Record number

    436365