Deadweight Loss: Theoretical Size Relationships and the Precision of Measurement
- 1 January 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Business & Economic Statistics
- Vol. 5 (1) , 47-52
- https://doi.org/10.1080/07350015.1987.10509559
Abstract
In this article we examine the size relation of several deadweight loss measures and derive variance calculations for a numerical methods estimator of deadweight loss. Two examples are given to demonstrate the importance of these results.Keywords
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