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Economic Surplus and Derived Demand

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Ekkehart Schlicht () (University of Munich and IZA Bonn)

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Most demand - especially labor demand - is derived from the demand for some other product. This note demonstrates that the usual analysis of economic rent, as typically explained for the case of consumers' surplus, carries over to the case of derived demand.

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Paper provided by Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in its series IZA Discussion Papers with number 2159.

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Date of creation: Jun 2006
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Keywords: derived demand; indirect demand; consumers' surplus; economic rent;

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