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Simple Utility Functions with Giffen Demand

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Peter Norman Sørensen (Institute of Economics, University of Copenhagen)

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We present some simple utility functions whose Marshallian demand functions possess the Giffen property: at some price-wealth pairs, the demand for a good marginally increases in response to an increase in its own price. The utility functions satisfy standard preference properties throughout the usual consumption set of nonnegative bundles: continuity, monotonicity, and convexity.

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Paper provided by University of Copenhagen. Department of Economics in its series Discussion Papers with number 04-22.

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Date of creation: Oct 2004
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Keywords: preferences; Giffen good;

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  1. John H. Nachbar, 1998. "The last word on Giffen goods?," Economic Theory, Springer, vol. 11(2), pages 403-412. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
  2. Moffatt, Peter G., 2002. "Is Giffen behaviour compatible with the axioms of consumer theory?," Journal of Mathematical Economics, Elsevier, vol. 37(4), pages 259-267, July. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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  1. Junko Doi & Kazumichi Iwasa & Koji Shimomura, 2009. "Giffen behavior independent of the wealth level," Economic Theory, Springer, vol. 41(2), pages 247-267, November. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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