Northholland other useful readings include the relevant chapters of. I also know that a monotonic increasing transformation means strictly increasing. An extremely useful book of problems, designed to hone your analytical ability is. The lemma relates the ordinary marshallian demand function to the derivatives of the indirect utility function. If youre looking for an intermediate text, go for perloff microeconomics. Roy s identity named for french economist rene roy is a major result in microeconomics having applications in consumer choice and the theory of the firm.
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I have shown that roy s identity holds, but without the montonic increasing transformation condition. Pdf advanced microeconomic theory jehle reny solution. His area of research interest is development economics. Since you have a background in introductory economics based on the courses youve taken, ill suggest some intermediate microeconomics textbooks. Slutsky equation, roy s identity and shephards lemma. Gsecon 5010 applied microeconomics answers to midterm exam october 2005 q1. Introductory microeconomics uniti production possibilities curve the production possibilities pp curve is a graphical medium of highlighting the central problem of what to produce. One important application of roys identity is in deriving the ramsey rule for optimal commodity taxation.
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