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ECON 2105 Midterm: Exam 2 Study Notes at UGA

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azuremammoth471
8 Jan 2019
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University of Georgia
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Economics
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ECON 2105
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Sum of employed and unemployed (i) who has actively looked for work during the previous the amount a seller is paid for a good minus the seller"s cost of providing. Consumer surplus when you can buy things for less than what you were actually willing to pay. An economic state in which every resource is optimally allocated to serve each individual or entity in the best way while minimizing waste and inefficiency. Tax incidence the actual division of the burden of a tax between buyers and sellers in a market. Deadweight loss the fall in total surplus that results from a market distortion, such as a tax. A situation in which consumer demand is sensitive to changes in price. A form of demand in which changes in price do not affect demand. How are elasticity and deadweight loss related? quantity of exchange.

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The market for packets of cigarettes has been described by the following supply and demand functions:

Supply: P = 10 + 4Q Demand: P = 100 - 5Q where P is the price in dollars and Q is the quantity of packets of cigarettes per month (in thousands).

Part A) Construct a graph of supply and demand for this market showing all intercepts. What are the equilibrium prices and quantities? Show these on your graph.

Part B) At the market equilibrium price, what would be the total monthly revenue?

Part C) Calculate consumer surplus at the market equilibrium and indicate this surplus as an area on your diagram.

Part D) Calculate producer surplus at the market equilibrium and indicate this surplus as an area on your diagram.

Part E) Assume that a per-unit tax of $9.00 per packet of cigarettes is imposed by the government on the suppliers of cigarettes. Depict this on your demand and supply diagram. (Hint: the new tax inclusive supply function will be: P = 19 + 4Q). What is the new market equilibrium quantity? What price will consumers now pay and what price will suppliers now receive?

Part F) How much is the government revenue from the tax on suppliers?

Part G) Calculate consumer surplus and producer surplus after the imposition of the tax and any deadweight loss associated with the tax. Indicate these surplus and tax revenue areas on your diagram. Explain what the deadweight loss represents.

Part H) Now assume that instead of imposing a per-unit tax of $9.00 per pack on the suppliers of cigarettes the government decides to apply the same per-unit tax of $9.00 on consumers. Depict this on your demand and supply diagram. (Hint: the new tax inclusive demand function will be: P = 91 - 5Q) What is the new market equilibrium quantity? What price will consumers now pay and what price will suppliers now receive? (5 marks)

Part I) How much is the government revenue from the tax on consumers? (1 mark)

Part J) Who bears the greatest burden of the tax in each case, producers or consumers? Does your answer depend on whether the tax is levied on producers or consumers?

I am really having difficulty understanding Part J - can that please be answered with some detail?

1. If we know that Canada exports maple syrup, we can conclude that maple syrup consumers in Canada are worse off than they would be in the absence of trade.

Is the statement true or false?

2. When a country opens up to trade in a good for which it has a comparative advantage, and the country begins to export the good, we can conclude that:

  a.

The domestic price will fall after trade opens up.
  b.

The total surplus for this good will increase as a result of opening up the market to international trade.
  c.

Opening the market to international trade will create a deadweight loss.
  d.

Both buyers and sellers in that country will be better off as a consequence of opening up the market to international trade.

15. The inverse demand function for bananas is pa=20-9d and the inverse supply function is Ps= 9s, where prices are measured in cents and bananas are measured in pounds. a. If there are no taxes or subsidies, what is the equilibrium quantity? What is the equilibrium market price? (3 marks) b. If a subsidy of 2 cents per pound is paid to banana growers, what is the new equilibrium price and quantity? How much do growers receive per pound? How much do consumers pay per pound? (4 marks) c. Compute the change in the consumer and producer surplus? Show clearly on the graph? Does the subsidy cause a deadweight loss? If so, how large. Explain using a suitable diagram. (5 marks) Express the change in price as a percentage of the original price. If the cross-elasticity of demand between bananas and apples is +0.5, what will happen to the quantity of apples demanded as a consequence of the banana subsidy (assume the price of apples stays constant). State your answer in terms of a percentage change. (4 marks)