Measuring Consumer Surplus with Unknown Hicksian Demands

American Economic Review

Volumn 88, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 314-322

  Irvine, Ian J ^a   Sims, William A ^a  

^a Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

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