Testing multivariate economic restrictions using quantiles: The example of Slutsky negative semidefiniteness
用分位数检验多元经济限制:斯勒茨基矩阵负半定性
This paper is concerned with testing a core economic restriction, negative semidefiniteness of the Slutsky matrix. We consider a system of nonseparable structural equations with infinite dimensional unobservables, and employ quantile regression methods because they allow us to utilize the entire distribution of the data. Difficulties arise because the restriction involves several equations, while the quantile is a univariate concept. We establish that we may use quantiles of…