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Is There "Curvature" in the Slutsky Matrix?

C. Peter Timmer

The Review of Economics and Statistics 1981

D O the poor substitute among commodities more flexibly than the rich when relative prices change, even when compensated for the income effects of the price changes? Is it necessary to add a third dimension to the Slutsky substitution matrix to identify household income? In short, do the terms of the Slutsky elasticity matrix curve smoothly from poor households to rich households in such a way that equation (1) is meaningful?

DOI
10.2307/1924357
Volume
63 (3)
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395
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