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"Turnpike" Theory With (Under) Consumption

Review of Economic Studies 1975 42(1), 155
Journal Article ”Turnpike“ Theory With (Under) Consumption Get access Trout Rader Trout Rader Washington University, St Louis Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Review of Economic Studies, Volume 42, Issue 1, January 1975, Pages 155–165, https://doi.org/10.2307/2296829 Published: 01 January 1975

The Existence of a Utility Function to Represent Preferences

Review of Economic Studies 1963 30(3), 229
Journal Article The Existence of a Utility Function to Represent Preferences Get access Trout Rader Trout Rader New Haven, Connecticut, and Columbia, Missouri Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Review of Economic Studies, Volume 30, Issue 3, October 1963, Pages 229–232, https://doi.org/10.2307/2296323 Published: 01 October 1963

The Welfare Loss from Price Distortions

Econometrica 1976 44(6), 1253
[We generalize to directionally dense but otherwise arbitrary production the Foster-Sonneschein theorem that increases in price distortion reduce consumer welfare. No convexity assumptions appear as in another generalization due to Kawamata. The many consumer case is considered but found to be problematic.]

Nice Demand Functions

Econometrica 1973 41(5), 913
[This paper is concerned with showing differentiability and measure theoretic properties on demand functions. The main results are roughly as follows. (i) Demand is differentiable and the Slutsky equation holds for almost all prices if demand satisfies a Lipschitz condition in income (except possibly for a closed cone of prices of measure zero) and utility is concave. This includes the homothetic case which is given special attention in Section 4. (ii) For the Slutsky equation to indicate demand behavior in the large, it is sufficient that along any given indifference curve the ratio of changes in price to changes in quantity be bounded from zero (Section 5). (iii) Even with almost everywhere differentiable demand derived from continuously differentiable utility, most change in demand does not necessarily take place where the Slutsky equation is valid (Section 5). (iv) By way of proof of Theorems 1-3, it is shown that the maximand in a Lagrange problem is differentiable under appropriate conditions on the function being maximized (Theorem 6, Section 3, and Appendix). (v) For preferences as in (ii) and for almost all wealths, equilibrium is locally unique (Section 6).]