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Microeconomic Theory by Andreu Mas-Colell, Michael D. Whinston, and Jerry R. Green is the standard US graduate level microeconomics textbook. First published in 1995, the book consists of five parts: Part I: Individual Decision-Making; Part II: Game Theory; Part III: Market Equilibrium and Market Failure; Part IV: General Equilibrium; Part V: Welfare Economics and Incentives.
Shephard's lemma is a result in microeconomics having applications in the theory of the firm and in consumer choice. [1] The lemma states that if indifference curves of the expenditure or cost function are convex , then the cost-minimizing point of a given good ( i {\displaystyle i} ) with price p i {\displaystyle p_{i}} is unique.
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An isoquant map where Q3 > Q2 > Q1.At any point on any isoquant, the marginal rate of technical substitution is the absolute value of the slope of the isoquant at that point.
Microeconomics analyzes the market mechanisms that enable buyers and sellers to establish relative prices among goods and services. Shown is a marketplace in Delhi. Shown is a marketplace in Delhi. Microeconomics is a branch of economics that studies the behavior of individuals and firms in making decisions regarding the allocation of scarce ...
Hotelling's lemma is a result in microeconomics that relates the supply of a good to the maximum profit of the producer. It was first shown by Harold Hotelling, and is widely used in the theory of the firm.
In microeconomics, the expenditure function represents the minimum amount of expenditure needed to achieve a given level of utility, given a utility function and the prices of goods. Formally, if there is a utility function u {\displaystyle u} that describes preferences over n goods, the expenditure function e ( p , u ∗ ) {\displaystyle e(p,u ...
In microeconomics, a consumer's Hicksian demand function (or compensated demand function) represents the quantity of a good demanded when the consumer minimizes expenditure while maintaining a fixed level of utility.