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 wh...
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Format: | Journal article |
Language: | English |
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2003
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