The Distance Function in Consumer Behaviour with Applications to Index Numbers and Optimal Taxation.

Section 1 of the paper defines the distance function and discusses its properties. Particular attention is focused on the duality between the distance and cost functions and on the use of the former in deriving compensated inverse demand functions. These latter seem to have been first systematically...

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Publicado en:Review of Economic Studies Vol. 46; no. 3; pp. 391 - 406
Autor principal: Deaton, Angus
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Oxford University Press / USA Jul79
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