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- D2) Economics John is a consumer of housing and food with a Cobb-Douglas utility function of U(H, F) = HaFB, with α and β being positive constants. 1) With prices remaining constant, will John raise his housing and food consumption in proportion to his increased income? Mathematically justify your answer. 2) Will John spend the same amount of his income on housing and food regardless of how much they cost or how much he earns? Mathematically justify your answer. of their prices or her income? Justify your answer mathematically.Suppose Jimi has reference dependent preferences over guitars and money as in Tversky and Kahneman (1991). His utility functions are given below. Gains Gains 400 -2 -2 2 Guitars Losses Losses |-600 -2 What is the least amount of money Jimi is willing to accept to sell one of his guitars? (just enter a dollar amount, i.e., "1000", not "$1000"The consumer’s utility function is u(x1, x2) = 2√x1 + √(x2/4) (a) Determine the equilibrium condition for MRS21 and prices p1, p2. (b) Express the general form of D1(p1, p2, m), D2(p1, p2, m). (c) Calculate the desired amounts x1, x2 for p1 = 8, p2 = 2, m = 80. (d) Express the general form of income elasticity for commodity x1. Please show working step by step for b,c,d with final values of solution like in a
- An agent has income m that can be spent on frequent flier miles f or on other goods – a “composite good” g. Their respective prices are: pf = 10 per mile and pg = 1 per unit. The flier miles have a stepwise price schedule. After the first 25 miles the price is reduced by 20% and after 50 miles the price is further reduced by another 50%.1. Put g on the vertical axis and f on the horizontal axis. Assume m = 200, and draw the budget constraint with all the intercepts and appropriate slopes. 2. On a separate graph, repeat part (1) for m = 300. 3. On a separate graph, repeat part (1) for m = 600.2) A consumer of two goods, either 1 or 2, has a utility function U (X1, X2) = x1 0,6.x2 0.4, where x denotes units of good 1 and x2 units of good 2. The price of good 1 is 5 euros per unit, the price of good 2 is 3 euros per unit and the consumer's income is 150 euros. Suppose only the price of good 1 changes and so does the new one price is p1‘ = 2. Then the Slutsky substitution effect with respect to good 1 is Choose one: A) Not defined B) 10.8 C) 8.8 D) 7.8 E) 9.8(a) A consumer with income I=120 facing prices pX = 4 and pY = 8 for two goods X and Y (for each good she prefers more to less, with diminishing MRS) chooses optimally to consume 12 units of X. If the prices change and now pX = 6 and pY = 4, what is the possible range for her new optimal X consumption? (b) Forget about (a). A consumer with I=$240 budget is shopping for apples (x) and oranges (y). Apples cost $1 each up until 60 units; thereafter each apple costs $2. Similarly, oranges cost $1 each up until 60 units, and thereafter $2 each. Draw the graph of feasible set of bundles for the consumer with relevant points and numbers (shade the feasible area), no explanation needed. (c)(HARD!) In (b), calculate the optimal bundle assuming the consumer’s utility function is u(x,y) = x5y.
- Khan lives in a world with two consumption goods x and y. Her utility function is U (x, y) = √x² + y². a. If px = $3,py = $4, and her income, I, is equal to $50, what will be the quantities of x and y that Maya should buy to maximize her utility? Make sure that you write out the Lagrangian and the first-order conditions. (Hint: It may be easier to maximize U² than U). Have you found a true maximum? Explain your answer.Assume an individual's utility from consuming good #1 and good #2 is given by the following function: U (q1 , q2) = min (q1 , 2q2) Suppose the price of good #1 is $1 (p1=1) and the individual's income is $10 (y=10). If this individual's utility maximizing decision is to purchase 2 units of good #2 (q2=2), what must be the price of good #2?Problem 3 (10 points; 5 points for each part): Richard has a total utility function of: TU = 10q₁q₁²+24q2q2² +9192, where q₁ and q2 are goods. Richard is currently consuming at q₁ = 4 and q₂ = 6, which is also his utility maximizing consumption level. (Richard's optimal point is an interior solution). (a) How much additional utility would Richard receive if he were to increase his consumption of q2 from 6 to 7? (5 points). (b) How much q2 is Richard willing to pay (in terms of q2) in order to consume the 5th unit of q₁? (5 points).
- 2. Consider a consumer whose preference relation over the consumption set X = R can be repre- sented by the utility function: u (11, 12, 13) = A (x1 – #1)° (x2 – #2)® (r3 – 3)" where A, a, B and y are all strictly positive. (a) Why can you assume A = 1 and a + 3 + y = 1 without loss of generality? Do so for the %3D rest of the question. (b) Solve the UMP and derive the consumer's Walrasian demand. (c) Find the indirect utility function, the minimum expenditure function, and the Hicksian demand function.Q2. Suppose a consumer seeks to maximize the utility function U (x, y) = (x + 2) (y + 1), where x and y represent the quantities of the two goods consumed. The prices of the two goods and the consumer's income are pa, py, and I. (c) Show the bordered Hessian matrix, H for this problem. What does the second order condition require for this problem? Show if it is satisfied.An individual's utility is given by: U (q1, q2) = a(q1)+ b(q2), where a and b are constants. When prices are P1= 4 and P2=1, the individual can only maximize utility by purchasing all good #2. When the prices are P1=3 and P2=1, the individual can only maximize utility by consuming all good #1. Which of the following statements below must be true? A. Goods #1 and #2 are complements B. a < b C. 3 < a/b <4 D. The indifference curves exhibit diminishing MRS