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| Volume 1, No. 3,
December 2002
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| Duality
and the Geometry of the Income and Substitution Effects |
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| Michael J. Panik |
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Faculty of Economics,
University of Hartford, U.S.A. |
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| Abstract |
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geometry of the Hicks-Slutsky income and substitution effect is
framed in terms of the consumer’s expenditure function and expenditure
equation and thus can be studied with-out resorting to the indifference
map of a direct utility function. |
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Key words:
duality; income/substitution effect; expenditure function |
| JEL
classification:
D1; D6 |
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