ECON 1050 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Indifference Curve, Real Income, Relative Price

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Chapter 9: possibilities, preferences and choices: consumption choices are limited by income and price, a house holds budget line describes the limits to its consumption choices. Divisible goods: can be bought in any quantity desired e. g. gasoline, electricity (we can best understand household choice if we suppose all goods are divisible) Expenditure = (price of good a x quantity) + (price of good b x quantity) Real income: income expressed as a quantity of goods that the household can afford to buy in terms of a good = expenditure / price of good. Relative price: price of one good(good u want to find opp cost for) divided by the price of another good (also opportunity cost: gradient of the slope of the budget line. Change in price: decrease in price of good on x-axis flattens the budget line and rotates outwards. Increase in price of good on x-axis makes it steeper and rotates inward.

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Consider an individual making choices over two goods, x and y with prices px and py, and who has income:

Suppose that, as a result of changes in the individual's economic circumstances, the budget line rotates outward, with the vertical (good y) intercept remaining unchanged but the horizontal (good x) intercept shifting to the right. Explain how this could have happened if the price of good x did not change?

If the individual's utility function is u(x; y) = x 2 + 4y 2 , are these preferences convex? Are they monotonic? Explain.

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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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113. A production possibilities frontier shows the
A) the maximum attainable combinations of two goods that can beproduced with the available resources.
B) combinations of two goods that consumers desire most.
C)maximum output of two goods that can be produced with an unlimitedquantity of resources.
D) demand for two goods.

114. Being on the production possibilities frontier implies thatmore of one good can be produced only by
A) decreasing the quantity of the other good produced.
B)increasing the quantity of the other good produced.
C) lowering the price of the good.
D) raising the price of the good.
E) None Of The Above

116. An output combinationis technically efficient if
A) it is possible to produce more of all goods.
B) it is possible toproduce more of one good without producing less ofanother.
C) it is not possible to produce more of one good without producingless of another.
D) it is not possible to produce more of one good at any cost.

117. Suppose in an economysome resources are not utilized in their most productive use. Ifsociety decides that it wants more of onegood,
A) it will have to increase the quantity of resources in theeconomy.
B) it will have to give up production and consumption of some othergood.
C) it can only do so iftechnology advances.
D) it can achieve this without giving up another good by employingthe under-utilized resources. E) None Of TheAbove

118. In the productionpossibilities frontier framework, unemployment is representedby
A) an inward shift of thecurve.
B) a point located inside the curve.
C) a point located outside the curve.
D) a point located on the curve

119. Which of the followingwould not shift a nation's production possibilities frontier?
A) a liberal immigrationpolicy that welcomes foreign labor
B) an increase in a nation's capital stock
C) discovery of oil, a vital input in the production process
D) an increase in the general price level.

132. If the price of SUVswere to increase, we would expect:
A) the demand for gasoline to increase.
B) the demand for gasoline to decrease.
C) the supply of gasoline to increase.
D) the supply of gasoline to decrease.
E) both B and D to occur.

E) None Of TheAbove

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