Hicksian Demand Function
In microeconomics, a consumer's Hicksian demand correspondence is the demand of a consumer over a bundle of goods that minimizes their expenditure while delivering a fixed level of utility. If the correspondence is actually a function, it is referred to as the Hicksian demand function, or compensated demand function. The function is named after John Hicks.
Mathematically,
where h(p,u) is the Hicksian demand function, or commodity bundle demanded, at price level p and utility level . Here p is a vector of prices, and X is a vector of quantities demanded so that the sum of all pixi, is the total expense on goods X.
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