Scandinavian Working Papers in Economics

Memorandum,
Oslo University, Department of Economics

No 11/1998: On the Structure of Behavioral Multistate Duration Models

J.K. Dagsvik

Abstract: This paper proposes a particular behavioral assumption to characterize the stochastic structure of intertemporal discrete choice models in the absence of state dependence. This assumption extends Luce's axiom; "Independence from Irrelevant Alternatives", to the intertemporal context. Under certain regularity conditions the implication of this assumption is that the individual choice process is a Markov chain with transition probabilities that have a particularly simple structure.

Keywords: MODELS

JEL-codes: C10

40 pages, 1998

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