Economic Surplus and Derived Demand

Ekkehart Schlicht

No 2159, IZA Discussion Papers from IZA Network @ LISER

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)
Pages: 8 pages
Date: 2006-06
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