Suppose a consumer has preferences between two goods that are perfect substitutes. Can you change prices in such a way that the entire demand response is due to the income effect?
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Perfect substitutes are goods that a consumer perceives as identical. They have a constant marginal rate of substitution, meaning the consumer is willing to trade one good for the other at a constant rate. Second, we need to understand what the income effect is. Show more…
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