# Questions tagged [pareto-efficiency]

An efficiency standard based on the idea that the most efficient outcomes are those where no individual can be made better-off without making at least one other worse-off.

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### Theoretical models of copyright infringement and efficiency implications

I wanted to know if there are theoretical models of copyright infringement and what are their implications for efficiency in the market and also, if possible, any empirical support they have. When I ...
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### Can the theory of the second best mathematically justify labor unions in some scenarios?

An EPI page says: Some economists and policymakers might express unease at the view that the downsides of one deviation from “competitive” markets (either labor market frictions or market ...
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### Pareto allocations and Competitive equilibrium

Consider the one-consumer one-firm economy. The consumer has preferences over leisure $l\in(0,L)$ and consumption good $x ≥ 0$ represented by utility function $u(x, l) = ax + l$, where $a > 0$ is a ...
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### Pareto Set with strictly convex preferences

Suppose the agents A and B have the following utility functions $x_A y_A+12x_A+3y_A$ and $x_By_B +8x_B+9y_B$ respectively with endowments (8,30) and (10,10). The contract curve's equation turns out ...
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### Why do we have to normalize the income of consumers when working with an Edgeworth Box in a simple trade model with Pareto optima?

I was studying microeconomics and I confess I am not the brightest person for maths and sorry if this is very dumb but I get that we CAN normalize the income and I get where it comes from and how it ...
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### Pareto set with Cobb-Douglas and Leontief preferences

If $U_A(x_A,y_A)=x_Ay_A$ and $U_B(x_B,y_B)=min(x_B,y_B)$ and the total endowments are (8,4), is the Pareto set given by the line joining the kinks of B (black line shown in the diagram)? Shouldn't the ...
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### Pareto set and Edgeworth box

General equilibrium framework; two individuals, two goods represented in an Edgeworth box. Is it true that if the preference are both strongly monotonic the Pareto set will go from the origin of an ...
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