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Re they substitutes or complements. Explain what's happening in words your mom might understand. Are there policy implications to this finding?
Solve for an expression giving the firm's output (qt) at each point in time from 0 to T - 1. Discuss your result and give an intuitive explanation.
Disucss the profit-maximizing sustainable equilibrium for this model when the tuna are notcommon property (that is, when the level of effort can be controlled).
Briefly explain whether consumer surplus will increase or decrease and whether producer surplus will increase or decrease.
What will be the effect on the same individual's current consumption of a guaranteed increase in next period's income of £110?
Draw the two-period budget constraints implied by the following information: income this period $50, income next period $50 and rate of interest 10%.
Show how a fall in the price of electricity will affect the amount an individual is willing to pay to rent a television.
Suppose that it costs 12 pence a mile in direct operating costs to run a car. How much consumer's surplus will be gained from operating the car?
An individual is faced with a choice of buying housing in one of two markets; the private market. Why will individual necessarily choose the public housing?
Let X be games of golf per annum and Y all other goods. Draw the indifference map and budget constraint of an amateur who pays to play golf.
What is the most that person A would pay for two units of the good, rather than forgo consuming it altogether?
Calculate the profit-maximizing price-quantity combination for the firm. What are the firm's profits?
Are there any circumstances in which the firm in monopolistic competition can produce at a level of output at which the average cost curve is upward sloping?
Suppose the firm was prevented by law from charging a meter rental charge. Should this affect the profit-maximising price and output of electricity?
It responds by increasing output. Is this behaviour compatible with profit maximisation?
Find, on the assumption that the area under the demand curve measures the total benefit accruing to consumers of X, the consumers' surplus accruing to purchases
How does our analysis of the perfectly competitive market lead us to respond to these statements?
Suppose that the wage rate increases by 60 per cent. What happens to the cost of production? What happens to average and marginal cost?
How much must the firm spend to produce 100 units of output, and what is the average cost of production when X = 100?
Examine effect of increase in cost of labour on marginal costs in short run and in long run. Under what conditions will long-run marginal cost curve shift down?
Analyse the effect of an increase in the rental price of capital on average costs in the short run and in the long run.
If not, what actions should they take with regard to employment, the capital stock and output in order to rectify the situation?
What is the shape of the firm's long-run total cost curve? Draw the long-run average and marginal cost curves for United Widgets.
Suppose that the long-run production function which describes how labour and capital generate output is homothetic and displays constant returns to scale.
Discuss why people typically choose to underinsure the contents of their houses in their domestic insurance policies.