Questions tagged [surplus]
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Terminal and annual surplus distribution in participating life insurance
I consider a participating life insurance contract which is fair if $P_0 = e^{-rT} \mathbb{E}^{\mathbb{Q}}\left[ L(T) \right)$ ($\mathbb{Q}$ denotes the risk-neutral measure), where $P_0$ is the ...
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How to find the market equilibrium by surplus maximisation when there is a consumer subside?
Let's assume a market with linear demand and supply functions, let's say $Q_d = 20 - 4p$ and $Q_s = -4 +8p$ respectively.
We can easily find the market equilibrium by either setting $Q_d = Q_s$ (or $...
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When to prefer maximisation of surplus and when instead to prefer minimising differences in price and q to find market equilibrium?
Two alternative approaches to compute a market equilibrium (in static analysis) are either to minimize the differences (either using abs() or a quadratic diff) between supply-demand quantities and ...
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Difference between automated and living labor pertaining to surplus value
In the Marxist concept, animals, machines and slaves are incapable of producing surplus value. They only produce as much as they have to in order to function, and no more. Doesn't this also describe ...
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Is scalping tickets harmful?
IMHO, scalping tickets is no different from legitimate arbitrage unless manipulative.
Iirc, arbitrage increases surplus and hindering scalping is setting a price ceiling which leads to deadweight ...
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What does Yanis Varoufakis mean by “surplus recycling mechanism”?
Yanis Varoufakis, the current finance minister of Greece, talks about a "surplus recycling mechanism", a term he coined and uses to describe (as I understand it) a relief valve for economies running a ...
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Difference between 'surplus' and 'welfare'
I see these two terms used interchangeably but I have the feeling they are not exactly the same. My gut feeling tells me this:
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Surplus is the additional aggregate utility from the existence of one ...
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Objections to total surplus as tool for welfare measurement
I think people would agree that the most common tool for welfare measurements in economics is the notion of total surplus.
Throughout it's history, total surplus has been criticized several times ...
