Application Assignment 4.1 Technical Questions: 1‚ 3 and 5 of Chapter 9 & 10 Chapter 9 1. The following graph: (not able to recreate‚ but in the text)‚ shows a firm with a kinked demand curve a. What assumption lies behind the shape of this demand curve? The kinked demand curve assumes that other firms will follow price decreases and will not follow price increases. For instance‚ in an oligopoly model‚ based on two demand curves that assumes that other firms will not match a firm’s
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Why the aggregate demand curve slopes downward: To answer this question‚ we recall that the components of economy’s GDP: Y = C + I + G + NX We assume that government spending is fixed. The other three components: consumption‚ investment‚ and net exports depend on economic conditions and on the price level. 1. The price level and consumption: The wealth effect: Ex: The nominal value of a dollar is fixed‚ yet‚ the real value of a dollar is not fixed. Coca Pizza 1 $ 1 0.5$ 2 → A decrease
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Derive the demand curve? To show what the consumer should do to maximize utility‚ a budget line must be added to the preferences shown in the indifference curves. The picture below adds one. Point a is not attainable because it lies to the right of the budget line. The consumer is indifferent between points b and d because they lie on the same indifference curve‚ but point d is cheaper than b because d lies below the budget line. The consumer wants to get on the highest indifference curve affordable
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Movement along the demand curve: There are many factors determining demand- the prime one being price. Price and quantity are the two components which form the demand curve. Any change in these two variables doesn’t cause a shift in the demand curve but a movement along what is already existent. When prices vary‚ quantity is altered. Usually‚ applying the law of demand‚ more will be consumed when prices drop and vice versa. When more goods are consumed due to a drop in prices there is an expansion
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any work for someone else! 1. Consider a monopolist where the market demand curve for the produce is given by P = 520 – 2Q. This monopolist has marginal costs that can be expressed as MC = 100 + 2Q and total costs that can be expressed as TC = 100Q + Q2 + 50. a. Given the above information‚ what is this monopolist’s profit maximizing price and output if it charges a single price? Answer: MR = 520 – 4Q MC = 100 + 2Q 520 – 4Q = 100 + 2Q Q = 70 units of output P = 520 – 2Q = 520 – 2(70) = $380
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Minghao Feng ECO 102 B Assignment #6 03/25/2014 SECTION ONE: 1 point Here you will find questions related to chapter 27. a Assume that employers and workers agree that real wages should rise by 2% next year. If inflation is expected to be 2% next year‚ what will workers ask for in regard to wages next year? From the question we know that employers and workers want to raise real wages by 2%. But inflation will be 2% in next year. Actually‚ the employers and workers do not changer
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effect on the demand curve Markets in Action Advertising and its effect on the demand curve Advertisement has always been an important market strategy for firms to accomplish their goals. From cereal companies to airline companies‚ it is inevitable to go through the process of advertising. However‚ what purpose does advertising serve for consumers and suppliers in the market? In this report‚ it is to examine the relationship between advertising and the market demand curve. Moreover‚ the
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along the consumption function. 1. Figure 10-8 illustrates a period of a. low unemployment and high inflation. b. high unemployment and low inflation. c. high unemployment and high inflation. d. low unemployment and low inflation. 8. If total spending is greater than current output‚ GDP will rise. 2. Households can finance their consumer spending from current a. none of them. b. income and current wealth. c. wealth. d. income. Figure 10-1 3. If consumers receive an increase
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TASK 1 Laissez-faire Laissez-faire is an economic environment in which transaction between private parties are free from tariffs‚ government subsidies‚ and enforced monopolies‚ with only enough government regulation sufficient to protect property rights against theft and aggression. The phrase laissez-faire is French and literally means “let them do”. But it broadly implies “let it be”‚ or “leave it alone”. A laissez-faire state and completely free market has never existed‚ though the degree of
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Given that supply is fixed then at any given quantity of money (M1) there will be a corresponding demand that varies inversely to the price level‚ i.e. a downward sloping demand curve and there will be an equilibrium price level that ‘clears the market’‚ i.e. demand equals supply. If the quantity of money is increased (M2) the demand curve will shift to the right‚ i.e. at the same price level demand will increase but‚ again‚ supply is fixed. A new equilibrium will be established at the same level
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