On the Concavity of the Consumption Function
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Publication:4895054
DOI10.2307/2171853zbMath0856.90035MaRDI QIDQ4895054
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
91B42: Consumer behavior, demand theory
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