Calculating marginal rate of substitution cobb douglas
This is a special case of the "Cobb-Douglas" utility function, which has the form: U= xayb where aand bare two constants. In this case the marginal rate of substitution for the Cobb-Douglas utility function is MRS= ³a b ´³y x ´ regardless of the values of aand b. Solving the utility max problem Consider our earlier example of "Skippy" where