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Compensated Price Change


Definition

Compensated price change: give people enough wealth to compensate for price change.


For a change of price dp, giving the change of wealth dw = , we know from law of demand.


Demand change from compensated price change is

From , we have:


Here is an N by N matrix, and it is the Slutsky matrix S(p, w)


Note


Example