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* For a Hicksian demand curve, hypothetical price vector changes produce changes in quantities determined that have only **substitution** effects
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* changes in the price vector leave the $p^e + W$ unaltered because we freeze $\mu$ and solve for $W$
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Sometimes a Hicksian demand curve is called a **compensated** demand curve in order to emphasize that, to disarm the income (or wealth) effect associated with a price change, the consumer's wealth $W$ is adjusted.
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We'll discuss these distinct demand curves more below.
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## Endowment economy, I
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We now study a pure-exchange or endowment economy.
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We now study a pure-exchange economy, or what is sometimes called an endowment economy.
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Consider a single-consumer, multiple-goods economy without production.
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The only source of goods is the single consumer's endowment vector $e$.
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Competitive equilibium prices must be set to induce the consumer to choose $c=e$.
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A competitive equilibium price vector induces the consumer to choose $c=e$.
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This implies that the equilibrium price vector must satisfy
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This implies that the equilibrium price vector satisfies
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$$
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p = \mu^{-1} (\Pi^\top b - \Pi^\top \Pi e)
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We'll set $\mu=1$.
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**Exercise:** Verify that $\mu=1$ satisfies formula {eq}`eq:old4`.
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**Exercise:** Verify that setting $\mu=1$ in {eq}`eq:old3` implies that formula {eq}`eq:old4` is satisfied.
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**Exercise:** Verify that setting $\mu=2$ also implies that formula {eq}`eq:old4` is satisfied.
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**Exercise:** Verify that setting $\mu=2$ in {eq}`eq:old3` also implies that formula {eq}`eq:old4` is satisfied.
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**Endowment Economy, II**
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which after a line or two of linear algebra implies that
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