ECON 230D1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Budget Constraint, Bounded Rationality, Newstalk Zb

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A consumer ranks bundles of goods according to the pleasure they get from their consumption. Completeness: a consumer must be able to decide which bundle is preferable. More is better: more of a commodity is better than less of it. (a good, in contrast to a bad) With these three properties, we can establish a preference map, which summarises preferences. Indifference curve: the set of all bundles of goods that a consumer views as being equally desirable. Downwards slope means that individuals are willing to trade q of goods as long as equal preference. Measured by marginal rate of subs (the max amount of one good a consumer will sacri ce to obtain one more unit of another good). Most indiff curves are convex: most ppl are willing to give up some of a good that they have a large amount of for another good that they have relatively little of.

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A. True, False, Uncertain and Explain: determine whether the statement is true, false or uncertain and explain your reasoning â you only earn points for your explanation. 1. If preferences are convex, the set of points at least as good as any given point is a convex set. 2. If preferences are strictly convex, the set of points âno better thanâ any given point is a convex set. 3. If a consumer has strictly convex preferences over two goods and she is indifferent between bundle A given by (4, 6) and bundle B given by (2, 8), then she prefers bundle C given by (3, 7) over either bundle A or bundle B. 4. If a consumer has preferences over two "bads" then these preferences cannot be convex. 5. If apples (a good) are on the horizontal axis and dirty socks (a bad) are on the vertical axis then the indifference curves that represent convex preferences over these two items is upward sloping and flattens out as moving from left to right. 6. If preferences are not monotonic then they cannot be transitive

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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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Microeconomics Four-part multiple choice question with an explanation. Give a short explanation for each part regarding how your answer is computed or why your answer is correct.

Part A.

Para mi volunteers at a homeless shelter. It takes a lot of her time, and thus she sometimes takes off time from her job to do the volunteer work. Parami's behavior can be explained by:

	overconfidence.
	a framing bias.
	altruism.
	overvaluing the present relative to the future.

Part B.

Indifference curves cannot be concave to the origin because:

	consumers generally will prefer to have more of a good than less of a good.
	the satisfaction consumers get from consuming additional units of a good decline.
	the substitution effect holds across indifference curves.
	consumers must give up more of one good to obtain more of another good.

Part C.

Marginal utility analysis and indifference curve analysis are both used to:

	compute comparative advantage.
	derive supply curves.
	derive demand curves.
	analyze the total revenue.

Part D.

Indifference curves:

	represent a set of product bundles to which a consumer is indifferent.
	slope up and to the right.
	show the difference between the marginal utilities of two different goods.
	are concave to the origin.

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