Continuous representability of homothetic preferences by means of homogeneous utility functions

Journal of Mathematical Economics

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 291-298

  Bosi, Gianni ^a   Candeal, Juan Carlos ^b   Induràin, Esteban ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

^c PUBLIC UNIVERSITY OF NAVARRE   (Spain)

Author keywords

C60; D50; Homogeneous utility functions; Homothetic preferences

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000515255     PISSN: 03044068     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-4068(99)00030-0     Document Type: Article

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