ECON 3601 Midterm: Exam-ECON3601-2005April

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D e p a r t m e n t n a m e & c o u r s e n u m b e r : E c o n 3 6 0 1 b. Note: answer only four out of the following five questions: let the demand and supply curves for an export industry in a country be given by: D : 1 5 0 - 5 p , s : 5 0 + 5 p . (a) first, suppose that the country is small and is unable to influence the world price, which is . Let the country give a specific export subsidy of to the industry. Calculate the net loss resulting from the export subsidy. Explain your calculation. (b) now suppose the country is large and the foreign price falls from to after the.

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1. Students at expensive liberal arts colleges can often take courses at an adjacent public university at no additional charge. One of liberal arts college professors tells his students that it would make no sense to take courses from the public university because they would be losing the money they paid for tuition at the pricey private college. Given that a student has already paid her tuition at the liberal arts college, but judges that a course offering at the public university is better for her, she should take the course from:

a.the liberal arts college because she needs to get her moneyâs worth from the high tuition she has already paid.

b. the public university because the added cost of attending the public university course is zero.

c.The liberal arts college because the average tuition cost per course will rise if she takes less courses at the private school.

d. the pubic university because average tuition cost at the public university is lower than at the private college.

2. Using the reasoning of behavioral economics, which of the reasons below might best explain why companiesoffer a30-day-no-questions-asked return policy? Such a policy may convince a customer who otherwise might not make a purchase to take the product home and then the product:

a.becomes part of the customerâsendowmentat which pointloss aversionkicks in.

b. becomes a decoy and the customer decides to purchase multiple units of the good.

c. purchase price becomes a sunk cost and the customer correctly ignores it and views the good as free.

d. becomes an anchor upon which the customer inadequately adjusts for quality and ends up keeping the good even though itâs inferior to other alternatives.

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. Vouchers to Pay Private School
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Two conditions that justify government intervention in a market are the presence of external benefits and equity concerns. Both of these issues are present in the case of primary and secondary education in the United States. Think about what education without government education would look like. In the absence of government intervention, all primary and secondary education in the US would be private. Public school districts would not exist. Parents would need to pay private firms (schools) to educate their children.

External benefits

If all education were private, itâs likely that people would buy too little education, from societyâs point of view. External benefits are one reason. When a child is educated, he or she benefits and we expect his or her parents to take those benefits into account when they purchase education. But there are additional benefits to society which parents may ignore. As people become more educated, they are less likely to be unemployed or be criminals and are more likely to volunteer and vote. The presence of these external benefits is an example in support for the government getting involved in education.

Equity

Many families in the United States have low incomes. Among all children in first through twelfth grades in 2001, 46% were from families with incomes below $40,000. Since the cost of private education would be an important share of these familiesâ incomes, most Americans would be concerned about the fairness of relying on markets to decide how much education children receive. Current spending by these families on private education provides some support for this concern. Of all children in private school in 2001, only 25% were from families with incomes below $40,000. Therefore, equity concerns are another example in support for government getting involved in education.

Providing vs. producing education

Most economists think external benefits and equity concerns justify government intervention in education. But it is important to distinguish between government production of education and other forms of government intervention. At the level of elementary and secondary education, K- 12 education, government intervention today mostly means production of education by local school districts. To benefit, children must attend public schools. But this is not the only form intervention could take.
There are other markets where government intervention takes the form of subsidizing peopleâs access to productsâthink of financial aid to college students, for example. Many people in the US think that government should move from producing education to subsidizing access.

One form that subsidy could take is government providing vouchers to parents. Parents would use the voucher to help pay for their childâs education in a private school. After it receives the voucher, the school would turn it in and be paid by a local or state government.

Today there is a lively debate between people who think K-12 education should be delivered publicly and people who think quality and efficiency would be higher if government provided vouchers and the education was delivered by private schools. Some of these quality and efficiency arguments can be based on material we covered this week. Price competition between private schools will pressure each one to produce efficiently. Competition for students will lead private schools to offer programs of interest to parents and their children.

Answer the questions below and make use of the sources supplied. Be sure to cite you sources in your answers.

1. Explain whether a potential exit by students with vouchers will lead to the improvement of public schools. 2. Discuss whether the implementation of vouchers will lead the best students to leave public school, which could lead to a decline in education for the students left behind in the public schools. 3. Consider what might happen to the students who use vouchers to leave public schools in order to attend private schools. How might their academic performance change as a result of switching? 4. Finally, think about the impact of a voucher system on the students in an urban setting. Describe whether all families would have an equal opportunity to access education.

Your final product will be a paper that: ? Addresses each of the four questions above in total. ? Is APA formatted. ? The body is to be 2 pages minimum.

The requirements for your assignment are: 1. Answer each question fully 2. Define the overall subject of each question. 3. Cite at least three (3) resources from this weekâs materials.

Economist Robert Gordon of Northwestern University recently predicted that U.S. economic growth would slow dramatically over the next 40 years even with innovation, technological advances, and productivity increases. His claim is that future innovation is no match for the âheadwindsâ of demographic shifts, education stagnation, unequal income distribution, and high debt that will cause growth to remain slow in the U.S. (Gordon, 2014). Another economist, Erik Brynjolfsson, has presented alternative interpretations of innovation and technological advance. For this essay, watch Erik Brynjolfssonâs TedTalk regarding economic growth at http://www.ted.com/talks/erik_brynjolfsson_the_key_to_growth_race_em_with_em_the_machines#t-699439

Then, write an essay that describes your position on the subject of economic growth. Is economic growth still possible in the U.S. or has the U.S. growth rate peaked? Provide economic reasons and supporting evidence for your position. The essay should be 2 â 3 pages long, must be in APA format, and may have no more than 5% direct quotes.

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