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Where a tax increases linearly, the deadweight loss increases as the square of the tax increase. This means that when the size of a tax doubles, the base and height of the triangle double. Thus, doubling the tax increases the deadweight loss by a factor of 4. The varying deadweight loss from a tax also affects the government's total tax revenue.
In some cases, there is a unique utility-maximizing bundle for each price and income situation; then, (,) is a function and it is called the Marshallian demand function. If the consumer has strictly convex preferences and the prices of all goods are strictly positive, then there is a unique utility-maximizing bundle.
A common position in economics is that the costs in a cost-benefit analysis for any tax-funded project should be increased according to the marginal cost of funds, because that is close to the deadweight loss that will be experienced if the project is added to the budget, or to the deadweight loss removed if the project is removed from the budget.
In mainstream economics, economic surplus, also known as total welfare or total social welfare or Marshallian surplus (after Alfred Marshall), is either of two related quantities: Consumer surplus , or consumers' surplus , is the monetary gain obtained by consumers because they are able to purchase a product for a price that is less than the ...
The effect of this type of tax can be illustrated on a standard supply and demand diagram. Without a tax, the equilibrium price will be at Pe and the equilibrium quantity will be at Qe. After a tax is imposed, the price consumers pay will shift to Pc and the price producers receive will shift to Pp. The consumers' price will be equal to the ...
Deadweight loss and excess burden of taxation are synonyms closely related. I propose that we merge them. --Explodicle 16:36, 18 March 2008 (UTC) []We can not merge these two terms because while they "might" be closely related to one another, deadweight loss in this instance represents a general definition unlike excess burden of taxation which refers to a specific area (tax) reflecting the ...
A Cobb-Douglas utility function (see Cobb-Douglas production function) with two goods and income generates Marshallian demand for goods 1 and 2 of = / and = /. Rearrange the Slutsky equation to put the Hicksian derivative on the left-hand-side yields the substitution effect:
Relatedly, the social MCF is the basis for the conditions of an optimal tax system and optimal spending on public services. Thus, the outcome of a tax reform can be calculated using pre- and post-reform MCFs as well as price indices. Practically, MCFs can be calculated based on the tax rate and the elasticities of demand and supply.