Income distribution affects market demand and its elasticity, and, as a consequence, the optimal behaviour of firms and market equilibrium. This paper focuses on the effects of income polarization, and presents a model where - for any unimodal density function describing income distribution of...

Income distribution affects demand and its elasticity, and, as a consequence, the optimal behaviour of firms and market equilibrium. This paper focuses on the effects of income polarisation, and presents a model where - for any unimodal density function describing income distribution of the...

We analyze the direction of the co-movements of price and output in a monopolistic market when an expansive shock occurs. Price and quantity patterns are shown to depend on the consumers? income distribution. In particular, a low degree of income dispersion is associated with price and quantity...