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TAUX MARGINAL SUBSTITUTION [2 records]

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Record 1 2015-04-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Saving and Consumption
  • Investment
CONT

Cost-benefit analysis typically is applied to problems that involve the dimension of time. Choices have to be made about whether to sacrifice consumption in one period in order to have more consumption in another. ... such choices could be made by applying an appropriate discount rate (a "social discount rate").

French

Domaine(s)
  • Épargne et consommation
  • Investissements et placements
CONT

Le choix du taux d’actualisation public. [...] on étudie les effets [...] de politiques qui auraient pour résultats d’accroître l'investissement pendant une période, au détriment de la consommation, pour augmenter la production et la consommation future. On peut ainsi calculer [...] le taux marginal de substitution entre la consommation totale d’une année et celle de l'année suivante, c'est-à-dire les taux successifs de préférence collective pour le présent, ou taux d’actualisation.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Ahorro y consumo
  • Inversiones
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Record 2 2001-08-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Pricing Theory
  • Economic Planning
OBS

As applied to consumers, the quantity of one commodity or service that a given consumer feels he must acquire to compensate him exactly for the loss of one unit of some other commodity or service. When applied to money, the marginal rate of substitution is the price that a given consumer may be willing to pay for a specified quantity of some commodity or service.

OBS

Intermediate texts refer to the slope of the indifference curve at any point as the "substitution ratio" or "the marginal rate of substitution", or the "relative marginal utility ratio" at that point.

Key term(s)
  • substitution ratio
  • relative marginal utility ratio

French

Domaine(s)
  • Théorie des prix
  • Planification économique
DEF

Mesure de la quantité d’un produit auquel le consommateur renonce en contrepartie d’une plus grande consommation d’un autre produit, pour garder la même satisfaction.

OBS

Le rapport des désirabilités marginales de deux biens étant appelé taux marginal de substitution entre ces biens, celui-ci doit être égal au rapport des prix de ces biens.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Teoría de fijación de precios
  • Planificación económica
DEF

Tasa a la que un bien se debe sustituir por otro a medida que el consumidor se mueve a lo largo de su curva de indiferencia.

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