When is individual demand concavifiable?

Yakar Kannai

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Abstract

We describe results and open problems concerning the relation between the (observed) demand and the underlying (not directly observable) preference relation, both in the smooth and in the general convex categories. We focus on the relevance of concavifiability to demand.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)59-69
Number of pages11
JournalJournal of Mathematical Economics
Volume40
Issue number1-2
DOIs
StatePublished - Feb 2004
Externally publishedYes

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
This research was partly supported by a MINERVA Foundation (Germany) grant. I am grateful to a referee and to the editors for suggestions which improved the presentation.

Funding

This research was partly supported by a MINERVA Foundation (Germany) grant. I am grateful to a referee and to the editors for suggestions which improved the presentation.

FundersFunder number
Minerva Foundation

    Keywords

    • Concavifiability
    • Curvature
    • Multiplier
    • Revealed preferences

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