Hicksian demand
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Hicksian demand is a concept in microeconomics that describes how a consumer’s demand for goods changes when prices vary while holding utility (satisfaction) constant, often used in welfare and consumer theory.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Hicksian demand canonical | 1 |
| Marshallian demand holds income constant instead of utility | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
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NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Hicksian demand Context triple: [John R. Hicks, knownFor, Hicksian demand]
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A.
Hotelling’s lemma
Hotelling’s lemma is a result in microeconomics that links a firm’s profit function to its supply and factor demand functions via partial derivatives.
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B.
Pareto efficiency
Pareto efficiency is an economic concept describing an allocation of resources where no individual can be made better off without making someone else worse off.
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C.
“New Methods of Measuring Marginal Utility”
“New Methods of Measuring Marginal Utility” is a pioneering work in econometrics by Ragnar Frisch that develops formal techniques for empirically estimating consumers’ marginal utilities.
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D.
Karush–Kuhn–Tucker conditions
The Karush–Kuhn–Tucker conditions are fundamental optimality criteria in nonlinear programming that generalize Lagrange multipliers to handle inequality constraints.
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E.
Frisch elasticity of labor supply
The Frisch elasticity of labor supply is an economic measure that captures how responsive individuals’ labor supply is to changes in wages when their expected lifetime wealth is held constant.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Hicksian demand Target entity description: Hicksian demand is a concept in microeconomics that describes how a consumer’s demand for goods changes when prices vary while holding utility (satisfaction) constant, often used in welfare and consumer theory.
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A.
Hotelling’s lemma
Hotelling’s lemma is a result in microeconomics that links a firm’s profit function to its supply and factor demand functions via partial derivatives.
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B.
Pareto efficiency
Pareto efficiency is an economic concept describing an allocation of resources where no individual can be made better off without making someone else worse off.
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C.
“New Methods of Measuring Marginal Utility”
“New Methods of Measuring Marginal Utility” is a pioneering work in econometrics by Ragnar Frisch that develops formal techniques for empirically estimating consumers’ marginal utilities.
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D.
Karush–Kuhn–Tucker conditions
The Karush–Kuhn–Tucker conditions are fundamental optimality criteria in nonlinear programming that generalize Lagrange multipliers to handle inequality constraints.
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E.
Frisch elasticity of labor supply
The Frisch elasticity of labor supply is an economic measure that captures how responsive individuals’ labor supply is to changes in wages when their expected lifetime wealth is held constant.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
demand function
ⓘ
economic concept ⓘ |
| allowsToVary | income ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
compensated demand
ⓘ
constant-utility demand ⓘ |
| appliesTo | individual consumer behavior ⓘ |
| assumes |
local non-satiation of preferences
ⓘ
stable and complete preferences ⓘ |
| canBeAggregatedTo | market Hicksian demand under certain conditions ⓘ |
| codomain | consumption bundles ⓘ |
| contrastedWith | Marshallian (uncompensated) demand ⓘ |
| contrastPropertyWith |
Hicksian demand
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Marshallian demand holds income constant instead of utility
|
| dependsOn |
consumer preferences
ⓘ
target utility level ⓘ vector of prices ⓘ |
| derivedFrom | expenditure minimization problem ⓘ |
| describes |
consumer demand for goods at constant utility
ⓘ
how demand changes when prices vary holding utility fixed ⓘ |
| domain |
feasible utility levels
ⓘ
positive price vectors ⓘ |
| field |
consumer theory
ⓘ
microeconomics ⓘ welfare economics ⓘ |
| holdsConstant | utility ⓘ |
| implies | Slutsky substitution matrix is negative semidefinite ⓘ |
| mathematicalForm | function h(p,u) mapping prices and utility to demanded bundles ⓘ |
| namedAfter |
John R. Hicks
ⓘ
surface form:
John Hicks
|
| optimizationProblem | minimize expenditure subject to achieving a given utility level ⓘ |
| originatedIn | Hicksian reformulation of demand theory ⓘ |
| property |
compensated price effects are purely substitution effects
ⓘ
homogeneous of degree zero in prices ⓘ satisfies Slutsky symmetry conditions ⓘ |
| relatedConcept |
Slutsky
ⓘ
surface form:
Slutsky equation
expenditure function ⓘ indirect utility function ⓘ |
| relatedTo | Marshallian demand ⓘ |
| requires | solution to a constrained optimization problem ⓘ |
| usedFor |
analyzing tax and price policy impacts on consumers
ⓘ
decomposing price effects into income and substitution components ⓘ |
| usedIn |
cost-of-living index theory
ⓘ
measurement of compensating variation ⓘ measurement of equivalent variation ⓘ welfare analysis ⓘ |
| usedToDefine | substitution effect of a price change ⓘ |
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Subject: Hicksian demand Description of subject: Hicksian demand is a concept in microeconomics that describes how a consumer’s demand for goods changes when prices vary while holding utility (satisfaction) constant, often used in welfare and consumer theory.
Referenced by (2)
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this entity surface form:
Marshallian demand holds income constant instead of utility