A note on a method for estimating the linear expenditure system with one restriction

Over twenty-five years ago, Professor Klein and Rubin presented the linear expenditure system. That system was first estimated by Stone. Subsequently many investigators have estimated that system. In this paper, many points of the error structure shown by Pollak and Wales are referred to. Barten presented an estimation theorem on a singular covariance matrix. In order to estimate parameters, we place an emphasis on the maximum likihood method which we believe to be most appropriate. As we have one linear restriction on parameters to be estimated, we maximized the associated likelihood function subject to that linear restriction through the well-known lagrange multiplier method. This paper is organized in the following fashion : (1) a brief description on classical consumer theory, (2) a linear expenditure system and its constraint, (3) dyanmic specification and stochastic specification, (4) estimation method, and (5) conclusion.