Determine cost minimization and the price elasticity
I am stuck at price elasticity, so if you can help me out.
I am stuck at price elasticity, so if you can help me out.
1: The demand for personal computers can be characterized by the following elasticities: Price elasticity = -5 Cross-price elasticity with software* = -4 Income elasticity =2.5 *relates a change in computer prices to changes in the quantity demanded of software Indicate whether each of the following statements is tru
Price rises from $10 to $15, and the quantity demanded falls from 100 units to 60 units. What is the coefficient of the price elasticity of demand between the two prices? A) 1.25 B) 0.80 C) 0.60 D) 1.00
Consider the problem of maximizing u(c,l) subject to pc + wl = wT + Y, where c is consumption, l is leisure time, T is the total time endowment, and Y is non-wage income. Show that if leisure is an inferior good, then the labor supply function is upward-sloping. b) Given the problem of maximizing ln x subject to α Ͱ
1) Calculate total-revenue data from the demand schedule. Graph total revenue below your demand curve. Generalize about the relationship between price elasticity and total revenue. 2) Product price Quantity Demanded $5 1 $4 2 $3 3 $2 4
A. An economist estimates that a new tax on labor income has had an effect on the labor supply of affected taxpayers (in other words, affected taxpayers work the same amount of hours after the tax is imposed). He therefore concludes that the excess burden of the new tax is zero. Do you agree? Define "excess burden", and explain
The city of Trenton is considering a substantial annual per employee tax on Trenton State College. Suppose that the labor supply curve to TSC is relatively flat because the employees have alternative places to work, and that the College has limited liability to substitute machines or other inputs for people. a. Show this s
In Risainia (a hypothetical country), the prices of commodities such as food and clothing are set in a free market, but housing is heavily subsidized by local governments. A two-bedroom apartment, for example, might rent for $10.50 per month. (Utilities and other fees increase the cost to about $350.) Consider the following st
Cross-Price Elasticity. B.B. Lean is a catalog retailer of a wide variety of sporting goods and recreational products. Although the market response to the company's spring catalog was generally good, sales of B.B. Lean's $140 deluxe garment bag declined from 10,000 to 4,800 units. During this period, a competitor offered a wh
What is supply? What is law of supply and what are the determinants of supply?
A) In the long-run in perfectly competitive industries the (long-run) supply curve of the industry can be derived. Explain likely outcomes (slopes) of long-run supply curve in various situations B) Explain economies of scale. What are the major reasons for this phenomenon? What are the likely slopes (shapes) of the long-run a