Econometrica

Journal Of The Econometric Society

An International Society for the Advancement of Economic
Theory in its Relation to Statistics and Mathematics

Edited by: Guido W. Imbens • Print ISSN: 0012-9682 • Online ISSN: 1468-0262

Econometrica: May, 1983, Volume 51, Issue 3

Expectations, Demand, and Observability

https://doi.org/0012-9682(198305)51:3<565:EDAO>2.0.CO;2-H
p. 565-574

H. M. Polemarchakis

Under the assumption that demand behavior depends on intertemporal preferences as well as (point) expectations concerning future prices, it is demonstrated that under plausible conditions rationality imposes no observable restrictions on the demand function and expectations and preferences are observationally indistinguishable.


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