Economics 2150A/B Lecture Notes - Ice Cream Cone, Marginal Utility, Indifference Curve

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Goal: develop a model of consumer behaviour to derive demand curves. 3 develop a way to model consumer preferences with utility curves. 4 add a budget constraint to get consumer maximization problem and the ordinary. 5 applications of demand theory: consumer theory assumes self-interest and rationality among consumers. Self-interest: the consumer will behave in a way that maximizes his or her satisfaction (utility). Indifference curves (i. c. ) represent the level of utility that the consumer derives from consuming particular bundles of goods in a world where there are only two goods. Shape of the indifference curves will represent the relative preference that the consumer has for one good over the other good. Says individuals always make choices to make themselves better off: experimental economics. Reality: preferences are less well-defined in children: the theory of self-interest does not eliminate the possibility of charitable giving. Charitable giving can be explained with self-interest if we:

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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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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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