Can weak substitution be rehabilitated?
By: V. Kerry Smith ... [et al.].
Contributors: Smith, V. Kerry 1945-; National Bureau of Economic Research.
Series: NBER working paper series -- working paper 13903; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) -- working paper no. 13903.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Description: "This paper develops a graphical analysis and an analytical model that demonstrate how weak substitution can be used for non-market valuation.  Both weak complementarity and weak substitution can be evaluated as restrictions that allow quantity or quality changes in non-market goods to be described as price changes that yield equivalent changes in individual well being.  They are Hicksian equivalents in that the price changes yield the same utility changes as would the quantity or quality changes.  After discussion of several potential applications of weak substitution, the paper develops the parallel between the restriction and recent strategies from modeling differentiated goods"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
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