In economics, especially in consumer theory, a Leontief utility function is a function of the form: u ( x 1 , … , x m ) = min { x 1 w 1 , … , x m w m }...
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and 1 unit of CPU. Thus, the utility functions (=number of tasks), denoting RAM by r and CPU by c, are Leontief utilities: u A ( r , c ) = min ( r , c...
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Donor coordination (section Leontief utilities)
Segal-Halevi, Suksompong study donor coordination assuming donors have Leontief utilities. This is motivated by funding charities, where it is reasonable that...
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Indifference curve (redirect from Utility curve)
(the consumer theory equivalent to the Expansion path) of a series of Leontief utility curves. In Figure 1, the consumer would rather be on I3 than I2, and...
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bundles, ordinal utilities are only the rankings of utilities received from different bundles of goods or services. For example, ordinal utility could tell...
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based upon the respective marginal utilities of the goods that they have or desire (with these marginal utilities being distinct for each potential trader)...
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\left({\frac {x_{1}}{w_{1}}},\dots ,{\frac {x_{n}}{w_{n}}}\right)} (Leontief utilities) max ( x 1 w 1 , … , x n w n ) {\displaystyle \max \left({\frac {x_{1}}{w_{1}}}...
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Cobb–Douglas production function (redirect from Cobb–Douglas utilities)
{\displaystyle M} = materials and supplies, and Y {\displaystyle Y} = output. Leontief production function Production–possibility frontier Production theory Cobb...
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Homothetic preferences (category Utility function types)
w_{y}}\right)^{\!r}\ \right)^{\!1/r}=au(x,y)} Linear utilities, Leontief utilities and Cobb–Douglas utilities are special cases of CES functions and thus are...
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(whereas continuity is used to set aside lexicographic or infinitesimal utilities). Completeness assumes that an individual has well defined preferences:...
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Complementary good (category Utility function types)
illustrated by the figure. Such preferences can be represented by a Leontief utility function. Few goods behave as perfect complements. One example is a...
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Monotone preferences (category Utility function types)
weakly monotonic but not strongly monotonic are those represented by a Leontief utility function. If an agent has monotone preferences which means the marginal...
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receiving x1,...,xm resources is minj(xj/dj), that is, the users have Leontief utilities. The demand-vectors are normalized to fractions of the capacities...
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Constant elasticity of substitution (redirect from CES utility)
exhibits constant elasticity of substitution between capital and labor. Leontief, linear and Cobb–Douglas functions are special cases of the CES production...
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with Leontief utilities - a special case of PLC utilities. Chen, Dai, Du and Teng proved PPAD-hardness in an Arrow-Debreu market with SPLC utilities. Their...
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Risk aversion (redirect from CARA utility)
SSRN 941126. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help) The benefit of utilities: a plausible explanation for small risky parts in the portfolio...
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Convex preferences (category Utility function types)
and 2. Consider a preference relation represented by the following Leontief utility function: u ( x 1 , x 2 ) = min ( x 1 , x 2 ) {\displaystyle u(x_{1}...
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PEEF allocation: The total endowment is (4,2). Alice and Bob have Leontief utilities, representing complementary goods: u A ( x , y ) = u B ( x , y ) =...
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variable, finding a CE is PPAD-hard even for Leontief utilities, which are a special case of PLC utilities (when n is constant but m is variable, it was...
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the problem of finding a competitive equilibrium in an economy with Leontief utilities. A zero-sum game is a special case of a bimatrix game in which A +...
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Daniel Kahneman (section Variants of utility)
Fellow at the British Academy In 2010, he received the Tufts University, Leontief Prize In 2011, he became a Distinguished Fellow of The American Economic...
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Gorman polar form (category Utility function types)
a special case of the Gorman form. Particularly: linear, Leontief and Cobb-Douglas utilities are homothetic and thus have the Gorman form. To prove that...
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etc. Although some utilities, such as electricity and communications service providers, exclusively provide services, other utilities deliver physical goods...
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Social welfare function (redirect from Rawlsian utility)
solution—maximizing the product of utilities. For η = 1 {\displaystyle \eta =1} we get the utilitarian welfare function—maximizing the sum of utilities. The limit when η...
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Goods (category Utility)
anything that is good, usually in the sense that it provides welfare or utility to someone. Goods can be contrasted with bads, i.e. things that provide...
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typical utility functions of divisible goods. These functions are commonly used as examples in consumer theory. The functions are ordinal utility functions...
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the result of Professor Wassily W. Leontief's attempt to test the Heckscher-Ohlin theory empirically. In 1954, Leontief found that the U.S. (the most capital-abundant...
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table, etc. And although some utilities actually deliver physical goods — like water utilities that deliver water — utilities are usually treated as services...
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(1934) sequential-move version of Cournot duopoly. Other examples include Leontief's (1946) monopoly-union model and Rubenstein's bargaining model. Lastly...
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