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**Producer surplus** equals $p q$ minus the area under an inverse supply curve:
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$$ p q - \int_0^q (s_0 + s_1 x) dx $$
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Intimately associated with a competitive equilibrium is the following:
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**Welfare criterion** is consumer surplus plus producer surplus
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$$ q = \frac{ d_0 - s_0}{s_1 + d_1} \tag{1}$$
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A competitive equilibrium quantity equates demand price to supply price:
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$$ p = d_0 - d_1 q = s_0 + s_1 q , $$
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* a competitive equilibrium quantity maximizes our welfare criterion
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It also brings us a convenient **competitive equilibrium computation strategy:**
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We'll derive the **supply curve** from a **cost function**.
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# Multiple goods
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$$ p ^\top (c -e ) = 0 \tag{2}$$
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## Digression: Marshallian and Hicksian Demand Curves
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**Remark:** We'll use budget constraint (2) in situations in which a consumers's endowment vector $e$ is his **only** source of income. But sometimes we'll instead assume that the consumer has other sources of income (positive or negative) and write his budget constraint as
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$$ p ^\top (c -e ) = W \tag{2'}$$
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We'll discuss these distinct demand curves more below.
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## Demand Curve as Constrained Utility Maximization
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**Remark:** Equation (4) is a consequence of imposing that $p (c - e) = 0$. We could instead take $\mu$ as a parameter and use (3) and the budget constraint (2') to solve for $W.$ Which way we proceed determines whether we are constructing a **Marshallian** or **Hicksian** demand curve.
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## Endowment economy, I
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We'll set $\mu=1$.
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**Exercise:** Verify that $\mu=1$ satisfies formula (4).
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**Exercise:** Verify that setting $\mu=2$ also implies that formula (4) is satisfied.
**Exercise:** Show that, up to normalization by a positive scalar, the same competitive equilibrium price vector that you computed in the preceding two-consumer economy would prevail in a single-consumer economy in which a single **representative consumer** has utility function
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$$ -.5 (\Pi c -b) ^\top (\Pi c -b ) $$
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## Dynamics and Risk as Special Cases of Pure Exchange Economy
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Special cases of our model can be created to represent
$$ c = \begin{bmatrix} c_1 \cr c_2 \end{bmatrix}$$
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$$ b = \begin{bmatrix} b_1 \cr b_2 \end{bmatrix}$$
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The endowment vector is
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$$ e = \begin{bmatrix} e_1 \cr e_2 \end{bmatrix}$$
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Before the random state of the world $i$ is realized, the consumer sells his/her state-contingent endowment bundle and purchases a state-contingent consumption bundle.
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## Possible Exercises
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It would be easy to build another example with two consumers who have different beliefs ($\lambda$'s)
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# Economies with Endogenous Supplies of Goods
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## Supply
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As a special case, let's pin down a demand curve by setting the marginal utility of wealth $\mu =1$.
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Equate supply price to demand price
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## Multi-good social welfare maximization problem
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Our welfare or social planning problem is to choose $c$ to maximize
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$$-.5 \mu^{-1}(\Pi c -b) ^\top (\Pi c -b )$$ minus the area under the inverse supply curve, namely,
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(This is another version of the first welfare theorem.)
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We can read the competitive equilbrium price vector off the inverse demand curve or the inverse supply curve.
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We can read the competitive equilbrium price vector off the inverse demand curve or the inverse supply curve.
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