The Axiomatic Structure of Empirical Content

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Chambers, Christopher P.; Echenique, Federico; Shmaya, Eran
• 署名单位: University of California System; University of California San Diego; California Institute of Technology; Northwestern University; Tel Aviv University
• 刊物名称: AMERICAN ECONOMIC REVIEW
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0002-8282
• DOI: 10.1257/aer.104.8.2303
• 发表日期: 2014
• 页码: 2303-2319
• 关键词: FITNESS REQUIREMENTS; SCIENTIFIC THEORIES; THEORETICAL TERMS; Falsifiability; temptation

摘要

We define the empirical content of an economic theory as the least restrictive observationally equivalent theory. We show that the empirical content of a theory is captured by a certain kind of axiomatization, with axioms that are universal negations of conjunctions of atomic formulae.