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- Suppose that you can invest in two different assets. One of them, the risk-free asset, always pays a different rate of return, rf. This would be something like a Treasury bill that pays a different rate of interest regardless of what happens. #371
- We can call this slope the price of risk since it measures how risk and return can be traded off in making portfolio choices. #372
- An economist would describe the distinction between the prices of the two kinds of apartments in this model by saying that the price of the outer-ring apartments is an exogenous variable, while the price of the inner-ring apartments is an …. #373
- Financial institutions loan money only to individuals but to each other. #374
- In the case of a … good and quasilinear utility, the utility associated with the consumption of n units of the discrete good is just the sum of the first n reservation prices. #375
- This sum is the gross benefit of consuming the good. If we … the amount spent on the purchase of the good, we get the consumer’s surplus. #376
- The change in … surplus associated with a price change has a roughly trapezoidal shape. It can be interpreted as the change in utility associated with the price change. #377
- In general, we can use the compensating variation and the equivalent variation in income to measure the monetary impact of a … change. #378
- If utility is …, the compensating variation, the equivalent variation, and the change in consumer’s surplus are all equal. #379
- In the case of supply behavior we can define a producer’s surplus that measures the net benefits to the supplier from producing a given amount of output. #380