The elevated status of the elasticity of marginal utility of consumption

Applied Economics Letters

Volumn 11, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 443-447

  Evans, David ^a  

^a OXFORD BROOKES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSUMPTION BEHAVIOR; DEMAND ANALYSIS; DEMAND ELASTICITY; DISCOUNT RATE;

EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 3142669070     PISSN: 13504851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1350485042000189541     Document Type: Article

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