ON THE DIFFERENTIABILITY OF THE CONSUMER DEMAND FUNCTION

Authors
MONTEIRO PK PASCOA MR WERLANG SRD
Citation
Pk. Monteiro et al., ON THE DIFFERENTIABILITY OF THE CONSUMER DEMAND FUNCTION, Journal of mathematical economics, 25(2), 1996, pp. 247-261
Citations number
13
Categorie Soggetti
Social Sciences, Mathematical Methods",Economics,"Mathematical, Methods, Social Sciences
Journal title
Journal of mathematical economics → ACNP
ISSN journal
03044068
Volume
25
Issue
2
Year of publication
1996
Pages
247 - 261
Database
ISI
SICI code
0304-4068(1996)25:2<247:OTDOTC>2.0.ZU;2-Q
Abstract
For strictly quasiconcave utility functions, demand is shown to be dif ferentiable almost everywhere if (i) utility is separable or (ii) util ity is concave and quasilinear or (iii) utility is differentiable and marginal utilities are pointwise Lipschitzian.