Henri Theil devoted a good deal of the last two decades of his professional activities to the analysis of international consumption patterns. This paper commences with a review of Theil’s path-breaking research on cross-country demand, and then investigates in some detail two important...

Henri Theil devoted a good deal of the last two decades of his professional activities to the analysis of international consumption patterns. He had the bold idea of using a single system of demand equations to explain the variability of consumption patterns across widely diverse countries. In...