To Assure a Well-Defined Solution to the Consumers' Intertemporal Choice

question 28

Multiple Choice

To assure a well-defined solution to the consumers' intertemporal choice problems,we must assume that consumers' preferences exhibit the properties that

• A) consumers are all identical and that more is always preferred to less.
• B) more is preferred to less and that consumers prefer diversity.
• C) consumers like diversity and that more is sometimes preferred to less.
• D) more is sometimes preferred to less and that first-period consumption and second-period consumption are both normal goods.

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