Demand Models for Market-Level Data with Closed-Form Inverses

We introduce a class of demand models for market-level data. The models can be estimated by linear instrumental variables regression while accommodating substitution patterns far richer than the logit and nested logit models they embed. They are built from closed-form inverse market share functions through a generator analogous to McFadden's generalized extreme value generating function, but acting on market shares. Constructive results allow arbitrary nesting structures, including overlapping nests and partial membership, yielding inverse-share analogs of generalized extreme value models. The class is consistent with utility maximization and strictly larger than the class of regular additive random utility models.

Source: arXiv:2610.10069v1 - http://arxiv.org/abs/2610.10069v1 PDF: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2610.10069v1 Original Link: http://arxiv.org/abs/2610.10069v1