This paper proposes a tractable alternative to Cobb‐Douglas utility to resolve the problems of lack of reservation price and income effects in demand functions derived from Cobb‐Douglas utility or quasilinear utility. Another advantage of this althernative is that it provides a closed‐form general equilibrium in the case where some industries are monopoly while others are imperfectly competitive.
History
Journal
Australian economic papers
Volume
40
Pagination
14-21
Location
Chichester, Eng.
ISSN
0004-900X
eISSN
1467-8454
Language
eng
Publication classification
C1.1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal
Copyright notice
2001, Blackwell Publishers Ltd/University of Adelaide and Flinders University of South Australia