On the differentiability of the consumer demand function

Paulo Klinger Monteiro; Mário Rui Páscoa; Sérgio Ribeiro Da Costa Werlang

doi:10.1016/0304-4068(95)00719-9

On the differentiability of the consumer demand function

Paulo Klinger Monteiro, Mário Rui Páscoa, Sérgio Ribeiro Da Costa Werlang

NOVA School of Business and Economics (NOVA SBE)

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Abstract

For strictly quasiconcave utility functions, demand is shown to be differentiable almost everywhere if (i) utility is separable or (ii) utility is concave and quasilinear or (iii) utility is differentiable and marginal utilities are pointwise Lipschitzian.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	247-261
Number of pages	15
Journal	Journal of Mathematical Economics
Volume	25
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/0304-4068(95)00719-9
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 1996

Keywords

Convexity index
Differentiability of demand
Separable utility

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