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Artigo científico

The consistency of welfare judgments with a representative consumer

Dow, James; Werlang, Sérgio Ribeiro da Costa

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It is common practice to use the representative consumer hypothesis without specifically assuming any of the sufficient conditions under which one will exist. We show, first, that it is possible for the utility of the representative consumer to increase when every actual consumer is made worse off. Second, in economies where this does not occur, there exists a social welfare function, which we construct, which is consistent with welfare judgments based on the utility of the representative consumer. Finally, we provide a converse to Samuelson's 1956 representative consumer result. © 1988.

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Tipo
Artigo científico
Ano
1988
Instituição
Fundação Getulio Vargas
Idioma
Inglês
Acesso
Acesso restrito
Identificador
oai:repositorio.fgv.br:10438/25331

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