Limiting Functional Forms for Market Demand Curves
市场需求曲线的极限函数形式
On the basic assumption that individual consumption of a good is a stochastic phenomenon, the first part of this article shows that under general conditions market quantity demanded is asymptotically (as n, the number of individuals in the market, increases) distributed as normal with and variance a function of own price given all other prices and individual incomes. Next, by the use of integral transforms, it is shown that the unknown market demand function can be…