Economics 2150A/B Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Al-Qaeda In The Arabian Peninsula, Emd Bl2, Normal Good

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Deriving demand curve from multiple indifference curves at different p_x. The consumer is maximizing utility at every point along the demand curve. Mrs falls along the demand curve as the price_x falls. The price_x is relative to good y as well, since the consumer will get more bang for the buck from good y for the buck from good y. The consumer will now substitute y for x. Rotation of budget line to match another point of indifference curve (utility is the same) Change in purchasing power for the good x. Parallel shift of budget line (doted to new budget line) Will bring the indifference curve to a new level (higher utility) For inferiorgoods, income effect is opposite, but substitution effect is the same. Inferior goods with income effect > substitution effect, therefore when price falls, q_d falls. U(x,y) = xy, mu_x = y, mu_y = x. P_y = , i=, p_x1 = , p_x2 = .

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20) When a consumer's marginal rate of substitution between X and Y is equal to the ratio of prices for X and Y, and when the consumer is spending all available income, then A) the budget line is tangent to an indifference curve. B) the consumer is not maximizing his utility. C) a higher indifference curve can be reached given the existing budget line. D) the budget line is tangent to the indifference curve at all quantities of X and Y. E) all budget lines are tangent to all indifference curves.

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1.	_____	The satisfaction or benefit that consumers receive from consuming goods or services.
2.	________________ _	A particular combination of specific quantities of goods or services
3.	________________ _	Consumers can rank all conceivable bundles of goods or services
4.	_____	If A is preferred to B, and B is preferred to C, then A is always preferred to C.
5.	_____	Equation showing a consumerâs perception of the total utility forthcoming from consuming each bundle of goods and services.
6.	_____	A set of consumption bundles each and every one of which provides a consumer with exactly the same level of total utility.
7.	_____	The number of units of Y that must be given up for total utility to remain the same when one more unit of X is consumed.
8.	_____	The addition to total utility attributable to consuming one more unit of a good, holding the consumption of all other goods constant.
9.	_____	The line showing all bundles of goods that can be purchased at given prices if the entire income is spent.
10.	_____	The change in the consumption of a good that would result if the consumer remained on the original indifference curve after the price of the good changes.
11.	_____	The change in consumption of goods results strictly from the change in purchasing power after the price of a good changes.
12.	________________ _	The sum of the substitution and income effects.
13.	_____	A good for which quantity demanded varies directly with price, causing an upward sloping demand curve.
14.	_____	A list of prices and the corresponding quantity consumers are willing and able to purchase at each price.

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True or False. If False explain why it's false.

1. If all prices are doubled an money income is the left the same, the budget set does not change because the relative prices do not change.

2. A decrease in income pivots the budget line around the bundle initially consumed.

3. If preferences are well-behaved, then for any commodity bundle (x1,x2), the set of commodity bundles that are worse than (x1,x2) is a convex set.

4. The marginal rate of substitution measures the distance betwee one indifference curve and the next one.

5. If someone has the utility function U= 2min(x, y), then x and y are perfect complements for that person.

6. At the boundary optimum, a consumers indifference curve must be tangent to her budget line.

7. If two goods are substitutes, then an increase in the price of one of them will increase the demand for the other.

8. An Engel curve is a demand curve with the vertical and horizontal axes reversed.

9. An inferior good is less durable than a normal good.

10. When other variables are held fixed, the demand for a Giffen good rises when income increase.

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