Consider the following two opinions, both of which can be found in the literature of consumer demand systems: (a) As the real income of a consumer becomes indefinitely large, re-mixing the consumption bundle becomes irrelevant: having chosen the ultimately satisfying budget shares at any given...

Consider the following two opinions, both of which can be found in the literature of consumer demand systems: (a) As the real income of a consumer becomes indefinitely large, re-mixing the consumption bundle becomes irrelevant: having chosen the ultimately satisfying budget shares at any given...

To make CGE models realistic, we sometimes need to include inequality constraints (eg, import quotas) or non-differentiable functions (eg, income tax schedules). Both situations may be described using complementarity conditions, which state that either an equation is true or its complementary...