Identification and Estimation of Preference Distributions When Voters Are Ideological

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Merlo, Antonio; De Paula, Aureo
• 署名单位: Rice University; University of London; University College London; Getulio Vargas Foundation
• 刊物名称: REVIEW OF ECONOMIC STUDIES
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0034-6527
• DOI: 10.1093/restud/rdw046
• 发表日期: 2017
• 页码: 1238-1263
• 关键词: maximum-likelihood-estimation; differentiated products; random-coefficients; CONVERGENCE; models; demand

摘要

This article studies the non-parametric identification and estimation of voters' preferences when voters are ideological. We establish that voter preference distributions and other parameters of interest can be identified from aggregate electoral data. We also show that these objects can be consistently estimated and illustrate our analysis by performing an actual estimation using data from the 1999 European Parliament elections.