Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/56546 
Year of Publication: 
2009
Series/Report no.: 
MAGKS Joint Discussion Paper Series in Economics No. 2009,49
Publisher: 
Philipps-University Marburg, Faculty of Business Administration and Economics, Marburg
Abstract: 
On the basis of a modification of K. Lancaster's characteristics approach and a special class of non-homothetic utility functions individual demand functions are derived. Individual demand is determined in a complex way by the income as well as the product qualities and the unit costs of the offered products. It becomes clear that product innovations (changes in product quality), process innovations (changes taxation and redistribution) all influence product variety in a very different way.
Subjects: 
innovation
income distribution
product variety
Lancaster's characteristics approach
JEL: 
L0
D1
O0
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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