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## Elements of Supply and Demand
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This document describe a class of linear models that determine competitive equilibrium prices and quantities.
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**Consumer surplus** equals area under an inverse demand curve minus $p q$:
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$$ \int_0^q (d_0 - d_1 x) dx = d_0 q -.5 d_1 q^2 - pq $$
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$$ \int_0^q (d_0 - d_1 x) dx - pq = d_0 q -.5 d_1 q^2 - pq $$
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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.
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**Endowment Economy, II**
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which after a line or two of linear algebra implies that
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$$ (\mu_1 + \mu_2) p = \Pi^\top(b_1+ b_2) (e_1 + e_2) \tag{6} $$
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We can normalize prices by setting $\mu_1 + \mu_2 =1$ and then deducing
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$$ \mu_i(p,e) = \frac{p^\top (\Pi^{-1} bi - e_i)}{p^\top (\Pi^\top \Pi )^{-1} p} \tag{7} $$
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for $\mu_i, i = 1,2$.
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**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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## Dynamics and Risk as Special Cases of Pure Exchange Economy
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$$ b = \begin{bmatrix} b_1 \cr b_2 \end{bmatrix}$$
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## Possible Exercises
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# Economies with Endogenous Supplies of Goods
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## Supply
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## Multi-good social welfare maximization problem
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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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