0 the weight of a structure, container, or vehicle when it is empty --
1 → deadweight tonnage --
2 the weight of farm animals when they are dead and sold for meat: --
Large corporations, state intervention, and conspiracies in restraint of trade discredit the welfare optimization and introduce the deadweight loss of supernormal price.
Economic impacts of climate change are modelled as deadweight losses to disposable income, which in turn affect utility and investment.
The current system is progressive but found to be inefficient in the sense that it introduces gross price distortions resulting in deadweight loss.
However, they focus on the potential role of these intermediaries in reducing deadweight losses due to principal-agent problems in the loan market for investment projects.
In other words, the adjustments do not account for the deadweight losses of government interventions.
The result is that the $1 billion in annual subsidy results in a deadweight loss of up to $400 million per year.
Multiplying this by one half of the 1.9 % subsidy gives an approximate deadweight loss of $400 million per year.
If the reduction of deadweight loss from monopoly pricing exceeds the welfare losses from raising the required tax revenue, social welfare gains result.
