A homothetic utility function for monopolistic competition models, without constant price elasticity

Economics Letters

Volumn 78, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 79-86

  Feenstra, Robert C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Homothetic; Monopolistic competition; New goods; Translog

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037212432     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-1765(02)00181-7     Document Type: Article

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