Questions tagged [mathematical-economics]
The application of mathematical methods to represent theories and analyze problems in economics.
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Dot over a variable, Neoclassical growth model?
Looking at the Neoclassical growth model, I have hard time understanding what dot over a variable mean? I know it is short for taking the derivative with respect to time, I don't understand the ...
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Indifference curves and equivalence classes
Last week in class, my professor described indifference curves in the context of modelling consumer choice with multiple goods. He defined a partial-ordering operator $\prec$ and an equivalence ...
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Existence of the general equilibrium
In the proof of the existence of the Walrasian equilibrium, there is a map defined using the Max map. Why this map is defined in this way?I am reading " Microeconomics; Gravelle, Rees". On page 257 ...
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Linearisation of the IS curve?
How to the IS curve linearised around the structural equilibrium?, what is the math behind it?
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Who was the inventor of Utility function?
To my knowledge, the idea of representing weak-order with a function dates back to Cantor. So my questions are:
1) Was Cantor the first person who rigorize these kinds of representation?
2) Were ...
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Non Collusive Cournot Duopoly model with two firms, zero costs and linear demand curve
I am reading Modern Microeconomics by Koutsoyiannis. In a Non Collusive Cournot Duopoly model with two firms, zero costs and linear demand curve.
Firm A produces half the total market demand to ...
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Reference Request - Dynamic Optimization with More Than One State Variable
I would like to understand how to solve dynamic optimization problems involving more than one state variable and state equation (to apply to long-term economic models with more than one capital good). ...
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What is the “bequest condition” in a finite-horizon discrete optimization problem?
For a finite-horizon discrete time optimization problem, my textbook provides a condition called the "bequest condition", which I'm not familiar with. Specifically, where the state at time $t$ is ...
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Advance Microeconomics [closed]
Show that u=a+bM-yM^2 represents a risk averter's utility function who is interested only in the mean and the variance of the state distribution of Income M. Can anybody send me the full solution. ...
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What data/factors/attributes do the professionals monitor in a top-down analysis on the macroeconomics?
I am learning to do top-down analysis on a number of sectors in the US equity markets. I have never done it before and I would appreciate it if some professionals can share their experiences with me.
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equality between 2 operations using mean [closed]
why when we do the following operation mean (10 ,20,30)= 20
is different from (mean(10,20)+30)/2=22,5
there are no equality between the 2 operations using mean ? why?
thanks a lot in advance for ...
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Second order partial derivative and cross second-order partial derivative
I'm following a paper (Full text available here!) where at some point (pag.17 and 20) the author get the following derivative:
$$\frac{\partial V}{\partial L}=Y-X\frac{dY}{dX}=\alpha X^{-\frac{c}{b}}...
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If the consumer is not a price taker, does she still set marginal rate of substitution equal to the price ratio?
Consider some consumer who consumes good $x$ and $y$. The price of $x$ is fixed to be $k$. The price of $y$ is $c(y)$. The consumer's marginal rate of substitution is given by $\frac{-x}{y}$. If the ...
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Calculating the elasticity of substitution between factors of production
Following the work of Lu (1967) (Full text available here!) I got stuck trying to derive the elasticity of substitution between factors. He use the formula developed by Allen, that when the production ...
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Whats the rationale for using taylor series in economics?
I've been reading about the translog production function and know its really just a log-log production function approximated using a first order maclauren series.
Why not just leave the function as ...
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What is Application of Vector Algebra in Economics?
I through one tutors heard that vector is used in economics .
But on searching about it on internet could not find anything
Recently I studied about Vectors in Mathematics
So I was wondering how ...
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Linking top-down and bottom-up models for analyzing electricity price-based demand response: Expenditure constraint is violated?
I have a question about the contents of this paper*, which links a building energy model and a utility-maximization component. In it, the author tests several electricity prices using a Cobb-Douglas ...
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Showing that a market model has arbitrage and describing martingales
This is an exercise which I came upon while studying an introduction to financial mathematics.
Exercise :
Consider the finite sample space $\Omega = \{\omega_1,\omega_2,\omega_3\}$ and let $\...
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Evaluate value added of a company
i have the value added of a company for 2 years 2016 and 2017 so to compare these values and to see its evolutioon i divided the value of 2017 by the one of 2016
but some friends told ...
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Maximizing a Cobb-Douglas Function
Suppose that a competitive firm receives a price of $P$ for its output, and pays prices of w, r and v for its labor $(L)$, capital $(K)$ and natural resources $(R)$ inputs, respectively. The firm ...
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Showing marginal product of capital is independent of the scale of production
The image is pretty much self-explanatory. To add some context, I'm learning Solow-Swan Growth Theory and my professor said that the marginal product will not change if both capital and labor increase ...
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Can there be a sample such that SRF and PRF do not intersect?
I am confused if it is possible for to randomly select a sample such that SRF and PRF do not intersect. I have thought of the concept of parallel lines, which allows for such a case but I am unsure if ...
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Income effect $-\frac{\partial x_i}{\partial m} x_i$ or $\frac{\partial x_i}{\partial m}x_i$?
Recall that the slutsky equation is:
$$\frac{\partial x_i}{\partial p_i}=\frac{\partial h_i}{\partial p_i}-\frac{\partial x_i}{\partial m}x_i$$
I know $\frac{\partial h_i}{\partial p_i}$ defined as ...
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What is the concept of ordinal utility?
I have read in many books that since utility cannot be measured - so ordinal concept or comparison concept is used.
If that is so, how can one define a mathematical function for utility which gives a ...
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Anscombe and Auman Expected Utility
I would like to hopefully get some insights on the Anscombe and Aumann Expected utility.
I've read some proofs and understood the Expected Utility Theorem (VNM) which allows us to approach consumers ...
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Proving the existence of Nash Equilibrium using alternate approaches
Most of the standard books/papers/reading materials prove/state the existence of a Nash Equilibrium by appealing to Sperner's Lemma, or to Brouwer's/Kakutani's FPT. However, I've recently come to know ...
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Deriving average productivity from a CES production function
Following the work of Raurich et al. (2012) I got stuck trying to derive the average productivity starting from the following CES production function:
$$Y=A\left [ \alpha K^{\frac{\sigma -1}{\sigma }}...
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Applications of Pure Mathematics in Economics
Are there any applications of number theory and abstract algebra in economics? An economist had told me that number theory had an application to a theorem in economics, however he did not remember ...
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Mean Field/Differential Game and Measurability
Consider the following scenario. There is a continuum of players in a population, with population measure normalized to $1$. Each player has a type $\theta \in [0,1]$ and we suppose that $\theta$ is ...
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Is this Cost function concave or convex?
Given the following cost function, where t is the quantity of some product.
$$C(t) = 1/3t^3 - 7t^2 +11t + 50$$
here is a graph between $t= 0$ and $t = 25$
We are asked if this function is convex or ...
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How likely are the Sonnenschein-Mantel-Debreu results?
I have been reading about the SMD results and it's "damning" nature for GET. My understanding of the result is as follows: price changes not only cause a substitution effect but also change the wealth ...
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Help needed to understand proof in Myerson and Satterthwaite (1983)
The following image is an excerpt taken from Myerson and Satterthwaite's 1983 paper Efficient Mechanisms for Bilateral Trading:
I know what the theorem is all about, all I need is some help with the ...
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Value of companies with circular ownership [duplicate]
Given two companies, total assets of $100 million each.
Company 'A' owns \$50M of company 'B'.
Company 'B' owns \$50M of company 'A'.
If you look at the value of both companies do you ...
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How should I calculate bulk selling price for a small business?
Some friends of mine run a small business, in a small garage-like space, with a few employees, making and selling "plumbuses". The typical customer orders about 5 plumbuses at a time. When I heard ...
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Purpose of Semidefinite Integral
I want to know the meaning of Semidefinite Integral.
I am used to read definite and indefinite integral but I want to know the meaning of such equation :
$\pi(e)\left(1-F\left[-\frac{a}{\pi(e)}\...
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Simplest model of an economy exhibiting (hyper)inflation
I would like to find a minimal mathematical model for describing financial crises of the type that produces hyperinflation.
Here's a naive attempt, just to give the idea of what I'm thinking of.
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Open Foundational Problems in Mathematical Economics
What are some open problems in mathematical economics which are treated as if they have been solved in economics papers?
As an example, one of my teachers has previously pointed out to me that there ...
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Euler's Theorem
Can anyone give me connection and intuition behind each of the following euler's equation-
Euler's equation in production function represents that total factor payment equals degree of homogeneity ...
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Including definite integrals inside definite integrals - Crossposted from MathSE
This question is cross-posted from MathSE: link
I have the following differential equation from a journal article:
$\dot{g}(t) - \delta(t)g(t) = -H(t) --- (1) $,
which is integrated between t and T. ...
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Is Gaussian distribution the proper choice for step in financial time series? E.g. DJIA ROI suggests Laplace instead
Data compression uses Laplace distribution ($\rho=\exp(-|x-\mu|/b)/2b$) for probability distribution of differences, while I see it seems economy uses Gaussian distribution everywhere (?), e.g. in ...
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How do I calculate the amount of money I get from an investor and the percentage I give him in return?
Let's say I owe a company.
At the final state I want to be left with 1M cash for myself and 50 percent of the company.
The investor is not willing to buy shares and give me the money but only invest ...
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Is this way of modeling undisclosed debt correct?
I am woking with a model like the one in Alfaro and Kanczuk (2006), that is in turn based in Arellano (2008), where sovereign´s preferences are given by:
that in case of not defaulting is subject to:
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Devising a model for inflation for a closed points system
I am working on a project that involves points. The idea is that users will earn points and redeem them for certain rewards.
The means via which the users earn are fairly limited (They can attend a ...
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How does this demand function satisfy the Weak axiom if it doesnt satisfy the necessary and sufficient conditions?
Let $x_k = \frac{w}{\sum{p_l}}$ for $k = 1...L$ be the demand function.
This demand function does satisfy the weak axiom and this can be shown simply.
The slutsky matrix is an $L \times L$ matrix ...
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Did I calculate the expected value and the variance correctly?
I have the following assignment to solve but I'm not sure if I solved it correctly.
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Let the stochastic process $(Y_t)_t$ be defined by $Y_t = \mu + Y_{t-1} + \varepsilon _t$ with $(\...
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Criticism of Math in Economics
I've been reading and speaking to a number of educated economists and economics PhDs who are against the use of intense mathematics and mathematical proof in economic theory. Specifically I've been ...
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How can I determine if a token economic is viable?
Given a system where you incentivize people to do actions in a system, we might have good and bad actors.
I would like to know if there is a software or framework where I could put the different <...
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Deriving Single Good Demand Curve
came across a problem set that I had no clue how to tackle, but looks painfully simple.
It's a market for electricity where households utility is represented by:
U(E) = aE - 2mL2 (Household Utility)
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Prove all cost functions are concave in input prices and demand for inputs is downward
I've seen proofs that cost functions are concave of the form
$C(\lambda w + (1-\lambda)w',q) \ge \lambda c(w,q) + (1-\lambda)c(w',q)$
although this neither feels convincing nor does it seem like a ...
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Simple Regression With Dummy Variable
Consider a simple linear model:
$Y = \beta_1 + \beta_2 MALE + u$
where $MALE$ is a dummy variable. $MALE = 0$ if female, $MALE = 1$ if male.
A model is fitted:
$\hat{Y} = \hat{\beta_1} + \hat{\...
