Economic Surplus and Derived Demand

Ekkehart Schlicht ()

No 2159, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: derived demand; indirect demand; consumers' surplus; economic rent (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D00 D61 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-ind and nep-mic
Date: 2006-06

Downloads: (external link)
ftp://repec.iza.org/RePEc/Discussionpaper/dp2159.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
Working Paper: Economic Surplus and Derived Demand (2006)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: http://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:iza:izadps:dp2159

Ordering information: This working paper can be ordered from
IZA, Margard Ody, P.O. Box 7240, D-53072 Bonn, Germany

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in IZA Discussion Papers from Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
Address: IZA, P.O. Box 7240, D-53072 Bonn, Germany
Contact information at EDIRC.
Series data maintained by Mark Fallak ().