On the Concavity of the Consumption Function

DOI10.2307/2171853zbMATH Open0856.90035OpenAlexW2159643892MaRDI QIDQ4895054FDOQ4895054

Authors: Christopher D. Carroll, Miles S. Kimball 

Publication date: 13 October 1996

Published in: Econometrica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://semanticscholar.org/paper/62f8e97e83b14f4491e28c67181653c03abba4f0

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zbMATH Keywords

marginal propensity to consumeincome uncertaintypolicy ruleconcave consumption function

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Consumer behavior, demand theory (91B42)

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