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Consider the following statements about demand curves, normal and inferior goods, and substitution, income, and gross effects. Evaluate whether each statement is true or false, explaining why you reach this conclusion. (a) All inferior goods are Giffen goods. (b) All Giffen goods are inferior goods. (c) A good x that has a downward-sloping demand curve must be a normal good. (d) Any good x that has a downward-sloping demand curve must have a substitution effect that is larger in absolute value than the income effect (that is, |SE| > |IE|). (e) When Px falls, the substitution effect on x is larger in size if x is a normal good than if x is an inferior good.

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1. Economists use indifference curves to characterize the preferences of a rational consumer. There are some plausible assumptions that lead to a set of “well-behaved” (i.e., downward-sloping and strictly convex) indifference curves. Which one of the following is NOT among the assumptions?

a. All goods must be economic “goods.”

b. Preferences are complete.

c. Preferences are transitive.

d. All goods are normal goods

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a. the amount of good Y the consumer is willing to forgo in order to consume one more unit of good X.

b. the ratio of the consumer's income to the price of the X good.

c. the quantity of the Y good that must be forgone in order to purchase one more unit of the X good.

d. the quantity of the X good that must be forgone in order to purchase one more unit of the Y good.

3. Which of the following statements is incorrect for an inferior good?

a. An inferior good may have an upward-sloping demand curve.

b. The income elasticity of demand for an inferior good is negative.

c. An inferior good is an economic “bad.”

d. All of the above.

1. If marginal utility is negative, total utility is

a. Positive

b. Negative

c. Decreasing

d. Constant

e. Increasing

2. If utility-maximizing consumers face identical prices, they will have identical

a. Marginal utilities for each good

b. Ratio of marginal utilities for each good

c. Preferences

d. Ratios of total utilities for each good

e. Total utilities for each good

3. The substitution effect

a. Always increases quantity demanded of a good whose relative price has fallen

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c. Is opposite in sign to the income effect for all normal goods

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e. Is always dominated by the income effect for normal goods

4. Demand curves for normal goods slope downward because

a. The substitution effect of a price change is greater than the income effect

b. Substitution and income effects work in the same direction

c. The income effect is always greater than the substitution effect

d. The income effect is always less than the substitution effect

e. None of the above

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a. Diminishing consumer surplus

b. The paradox of value

c. Diminishing marginal utility

d. Diminishing total value of consumption

e. Diminishing total utility

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