The Law of Demand and Risk Aversion.

This note proposes a necessary and sufficient condition on a utility function to guarantee that it generates a demand function satisfying the law of demand. This condition can be interpreted in terms of an agent's attitude towards lotteries in commodity space. As an application, we show that when an...

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Publicado en:Econometrica Vol. 71; no. 2; pp. 713 - 722
Autor principal: Quah, John K.-H.
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Wiley-Blackwell March 2003
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