EC 109 Autumn 2011 Dr. Mani Problem Set 2 Due Date: Oct31‚ Monday – between 9 & 11 AM in room S 2.132 Please keep a copy of your assignment and show all your work clearly. (1) Mr. J. Bond‚ a retired movie actor‚ consumes only grapes and the composite good Y (i.e. price of Y is £1). His income consists of £10000 a year from his investment fund plus the proceeds of whatever he sells of the 2000 bushels of grapes he harvests
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IA 710 CLASS 1 Scarcity‚ shortage and substitutability 1. Answer all parts: a) What do you think is meant by the concept of constrained choice? Why is economics often described as the science of constrained choice? b) Explain how scarcity‚ choice and opportunity cost are relevant when choosing amongst alternatives? 2. Define the concept of “opportunity cost” and discuss various examples. 3. Explain how the concept of opportunity cost may be used to explain the following:
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CFA® Level I – Economics Demand and Supply Analysis: Consumer Demand www.irfanullah.co Graphs‚ charts‚ tables‚ examples‚ and figures are copyright 2012‚ CFA Institute. Reproduced and republished with permission from CFA Institute. All rights reserved. 1 Contents and Introduction 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Introduction Consumer Theory: From Preferences to Demand Functions Utility Theory: Modelling Preferences and Tastes The Opportunity Set: Consumption Production‚ and Investment Choice Consumer Equilibrium:
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TASK 1 Consider the following equation: MRSXY < PX/PY where MRS = marginal rate of substitution x and y are two goods P = price < = is less than {draw:frame} The graph above shown us the indifference curve budget line diagram which explaining the equation MRSXY < P X / PY. There are two ways to measure the consumer preferences or what the consumer wants. The first one is by trying to put a ‘value’ on the satisfaction a consumer obtains from consuming
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unemployed workers to the size of the labour force: 1‚000‚000 / 23‚000‚000 = 4.3 %. 4. a) The poor who are at minimum subsistence and who aspire to middle class consumption patterns: This group values income highly relative to leisure‚ so the indifference curve is relatively flat. As the wage increases‚ the income constraint line rotates clockwise‚ and we would expect a relatively large increase in hours worked. This response is dominated by a substitution effect‚ but there may be a small income
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successive unit is consumed by other decreasing pace.). The marginal utility is the slope of the total utility function get flatter and flatter. * Um is the slope of the U function C/ Representing Preferences with Indifference Curves Graphical Representation An indifference curve= shows
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Refer to Figure 21-1. In graph (a)‚ what is the price of good Y relative to good X (i.e.‚ Py/Px)? a. 1/3 b. 1/4 c. 3 d. 4 ANS: B 2. Refer to Figure 21-1. Assume that a consumer faces both budget constraints in graph (a) and graph (b) on two different occasions. If her income has remained constant‚ what has happened to prices? a. The price of X in graph (a) is higher than the price of X in graph (b). b. The price of Y in graph (a) is higher than the price of Y in graph (b). c. The prices of both
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1.0: INTRODUCTION (UTILITY) Coca-Cola is an international brand that are consumed everyday all around the world. Statistic has shown that each day‚ more than 8 million can of Coca-Cola is being sold worldwide. However today we are not going to discuss about the secret behind Coca-Cola success. On the other hand we are going to move from production to consumer where discussion will be about the utility of Coca-Cola. Every customer has their own satisfaction level‚ and it is different with each
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Software and Decision Support Tools: Excel‚ Matlab‚ B34S Goal: Develop a systematic and reproducible decision making strategy. Common Tasks facing a Modern Manager: Whether to lease or buy equipment? How to determine the shape of the cost curve of a production process. How to price a product. How to estimate Demand for a product. How to forecast Demand. How to estimate a production function. How a production function can be used to set wages. How to determine the appropriate level
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Introduction Consumer Behavior is how consumers allocate their money incomes among goods and services. Each consumer has preferences for certain of the goods and services that are available in the market. Buyers also have a good idea of how much marginal utility they will get from successive units of the various products they might purchase. However‚ the amount of marginal & total utility that the people will get will be different for every individual in the group because all individuals have
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