Flexible and semiflexible consumer demands with quadratic Engel curves

Review of Economics and Statistics

Volumn 81, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 277-287

  Ryan, David L ^a   Wales, Terence J ^a  

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EID: 0033444177     PISSN: 00346535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/003465399558076     Document Type: Article

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