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### Consumers in the Marketplace

3 questions: How to use income and cross price elasticity to develop pricing strategies in relation to consumer income, substitutes and complements? How can total revenue be improved by ...
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### Corner solution of the maximization problem

I have the function $$u(c,h,l)=ln(c-a)+bl+dh$$ I know that $a$ is minimum consumption level. ( which means that $c\ge a$ $h$ is working hours. $l$ is Leisure hours. And $c$ is consumption. The ...
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### Are there any other rational preference relations without utility function representations, besides Lexicographic?

It seems like lexicographic isn't that "special". Like yes it is special in that supposing it has a utility function gives you a bijection from the rationals to the reals, but I mean unique in some ...
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### Why might a monotone increasing but nonlinear transformation of a utility function not represent the same preferences?

According to a textbook, a monotone increasing but nonlinear transformation of a utility function might not represent the same preferences. Why is it so? An example of such preference would be ...
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### Do any social welfare functionals meet all of Arrow’s conditions, plus absolute-scale full-comparability, but no other informational condition?

I’ve been trying to think of social welfare functionals which meet all of Arrow’s conditions–––unrestricted domain, weak Pareto, independence of irrelevant utilities, and non-dictatorship (see this ...
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### Clarification of iterated prisoners dilemma

In the description of an iterated prisoner's dilemma on Wikipedia, it states that in order for a game to be considered iterable, it must conform to the rule 2R > T + S, where R is the reward for ...
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### What price elasticity of demand can be inferred from this data?

What price elasticity of demand can be inferred from this data? Here is the corresponding data: https://www.energy.gov/sites/prod/files/2018/04/f50/fotw_1024_web.xlsx It seems to me that the (Gas ...
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### Finding demand functions for an unusual utility function

I have a utility function: $U = x + \min\{x,y\}$ I want to draw the indifference curve and find the demand functions. Will it be the case of the usual perfect complements? Also, what preferences ...
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### Would households rather live in a world with or without the unemployment insurance?

Would households rather live in a world with or without the unemployment insurance? What is a good example of world in which unemployment insurance is seen as a benefit, and not a hindrance?
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### Revenue maximization problem

There are $N>0$ Households in an economy. The government has aim to maximize a weighted average of income by imposing tax on the rich people and redistribute the tax revenue to the labor ones. ...
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### Why is a monotone increasing but nonlinear transformation of a utility function not represent the same preferences if the preference is complete?

According to a textbook, in the context of uncertainty (e.g. in lottery), if the preference is complete, a monotone increasing but nonlinear transformation of a utility function would not represent ...
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### Banks and Stock Market in Germany

My question is: ** Why does Germany have such a small stock market, but very large powerful banks? **
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### Effect of Agricultural products on GDP/capita

What is the best way to regress this effect. I would like to show the effect of the production of different agricultural products (Rice, maize, wheat etc..) have on the gdp of a country (India in this ...
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### Why income elasticity of demand of luxury good in greater than 1?

According to textbook and wikipedia, "if income elasticity of demand of a commodity is less than 1, it is a necessity good. If the elasticity of demand is greater than 1, it is a luxury good or a ...
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### Why would expanding fiat paper issue lead to decreased exports?

I'm reading "A History of Money and Banking in the United States" by Murray Rothbard, and I'm having trouble understanding this one piece of history. Basically, the Massachusetts government issues ...
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### How to prove that the walrasian demand function $x(p,w)$ is continuous in $p$ and $w$?

If the utility function $u$ is continuous and satisfies local nonsatiation, and walrasian demand function $x(p, w)$ is a function (i.e. always map to only single values), how to prove that $x(p,w)$ is ...
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### The centralized shift from barter to currency economy

Suppose some ancient king of small bronze age city-state wants to introduce universal currency instead of barter that is currently in overwhelming practice in his kingdom. In order to smooth the shift,...
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### Kreps Porteus Certainty Equivalent Intuition

In Epstein-Zin recursive preferences, the Kreps-Porteus certainty equivalent is defined by \mathcal{R}_t(V_{t+1}) = (\mathbb{E}_t V_{t+1}^{1 - \gamma})^{1 /(1 - \gamma)}. \end{...
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### Perfect multicollinearity when estimating a gravity model

everyone! I am estimating a gravity model in order to analyze the impacts of tighter environmental regulations on international trade. More specifically, I am analyzing Brazil's trade flow. My (...
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### Check if a utility function represents a monotone preference

Given a function $u(x_1, x_2) = x_1 +x_2 + \min(2x_1, x_2)$, how do we mathematically prove that it monotonic or not? Is there is a general algebraic technique to show monotonicity of suchlike ...