In the derivation of common travel demand models, it is customarily claimed that the main assumptions are based on microeconomic theory. However, the author investigates whether they are made mainly ...

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We show FC-MNL is flexible in the sense of Diewert (1974), thus its parameters can be chosen to match a well-defined class of possible own-and cross-price elasticities of demand. In contrast to models ...

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