ECON 3411 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Indifference Curve, Transitive Relation

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Consumer is capable of expressing preferences (or indifference) between all possi(cid:271)le (cid:271)undles. (cid:894)(cid:862)i don"t know(cid:863) is not an option! (cid:895). If the only bundles available to a consumer are a, b, and c, then the consumer is indifferent between a and c (they are on the same indifference curve). The consumer will prefer b to a. The consumer will prefer b to c. More is better property: bundles that have at least as much of every good and more of some good are preferred to other bundles. Bundle b is preferred to a since b contains at least as much of good y and strictly more of good x. Bundle b is also preferred to c since b contains at least as much of good x and strictly more of good y. More generally, all bundles on u2 are preferred to bundles on u1 or u0. And all bundles on u1 are preferred to u0.

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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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Respond True or False to the following, and explain why each answer is True or False:

a. If two goods x and y are perfect complements, then if the price of x falls, the entire change in demand for x is due to the income effect.

b. A consumer has the utility function given by U=min{x1,2x2}. If good 2, has a price of zero, the consumer will always strictly prefer more of good 2 to less.

c. Ivan spends his entire income on two goods. One of them is a Giffen good. If the price of the Giffen good rises, demand for the other good must fall.

d. Jimmy's utility function is U(a,b) = ab, where a is his consumption of apples and b is his consumption of bananas. If prices and income change in such a way that Jimmy's old consumption bundle lies on his new budget line, then Jimmy will not change his consumption bundle.

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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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