Market demand : theory and empirical evidence
著者
書誌事項
Market demand : theory and empirical evidence
（Frontiers of economic research）
Princeton University Press, c1994
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注記
Bibliography: p. 195-198
Inlcudes indexes
内容説明・目次
内容説明
This monograph presents a new theory of market demand, the principal aim of which is to identify the conditions under which the Law of Demand holds true. The author argues that the Law of Demand is due mainly to the "heterogeneity" of the population of households. In his view, "rationality" of individual behaviour plays only a minor role. While the traditional approach to the theory of market demand is to analyze the question: to what extent are the postulated properties of individual behaviour preserved by going from individual to market demand?, this book asks the question: which properties of the market demand function are created by the aggregation process? Two hypotheses on the population of households play a key role in Hildenbrand's thinking. The first is the "increasing dispersion" and the second the "increasing spread" of households' demand. For a positive theory of market demand, according to Hildenbrand, it is more important that the hypotheses are well supported by empirical evidence. His claims are based on a nonparametric statistical data analysis of the UK Family Expenditure Survey and the French Enquete Budget de Famille.
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