Homothetic utility, Roy’s Lemma and consumer’s surplus

Thijs ten Raa

Economics Letters, 2017, vol. 161, issue C, 133-134

Abstract: I provide a short proof that consumer’s surplus normalized by income is the correct welfare measure when utility is homothetic.

Keywords: Consumer’s surplus; Compensating variation; Equivalent variation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D60 I31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2017.10.010

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