TESTING FOR A GENERAL CLASS OF FUNCTIONAL INEQUALITIES

In this paper, we propose a general method for testing inequality restrictions on nonparametric functions. Our framework includes many nonparametric testing problems in a uni ed framework, with a number of possible applications in auction models, game theoretic models, wage inequality, and revealed preferences. Our test involves a one-sided version of Lp functionals of kernel-type estimators (1 ≤ p

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