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Preferences and normal goods: An easy-to-check necessary and sufficient condition

Bilancini, Ennio and Boncinelli, Leonardo Preferences and normal goods: An easy-to-check necessary and sufficient condition. Economics Letters, 108 (1). pp. 13-15. ISSN 0165-1765 (2010)

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Abstract

We provide a necessary and sufficient condition for goods to be normal when utility functions are differentiable and strongly quasi-concave. Our condition is equivalent to the condition proposed by Alarie et al. (1990), but it is easier to check: it only requires to compute the minors associated with the border column (or row) of the bordered Hessian matrix of the utility function.

Item Type: Article
Identification Number: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2010.03.005
Uncontrolled Keywords: Normal goods; Bordered Hessian
Subjects: H Social Sciences > HB Economic Theory
Research Area: Economics and Institutional Change
Depositing User: Caterina Tangheroni
Date Deposited: 24 Jan 2018 12:09
Last Modified: 24 Jan 2018 12:09
URI: http://eprints.imtlucca.it/id/eprint/3884

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