ECON 2GG3 Study Guide - Final Guide: Budget Constraint, Unifor, T Helper Cell

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2 n units of commodity 1 units of commodity 2 units of commodity n denoted by vector (x1, , xn) commodity prices (cid:224) p 1,p2 pn: when is a consumption bundle (x1, , xn) affordable at prices p1, ,pn, when don"t cost any more than m p1x1 + + pnxn < m. M (cid:224) consumer"s disposable income budget constraint: (budget line) the bundles that are just affordable budget constraint: bundles on the constraint consumer"s budget set is set of all affordable bundles, budget constraint is upper boundary of the budget set composite good: everything else consumer might want to consume other than good 1. Increases in income m: shift constraint outward in parallel enlarging budget set improving choice, original choice isn"t lost, new choices added, cant make consumer worse off decreases in income m, shift constraint inward in parallel shrinking budget set reducing choice, may make consumer worse off.

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True or False. If False explain why it's false.

1. If all prices are doubled an money income is the left the same, the budget set does not change because the relative prices do not change.

2. A decrease in income pivots the budget line around the bundle initially consumed.

3. If preferences are well-behaved, then for any commodity bundle (x1,x2), the set of commodity bundles that are worse than (x1,x2) is a convex set.

4. The marginal rate of substitution measures the distance betwee one indifference curve and the next one.

5. If someone has the utility function U= 2min(x, y), then x and y are perfect complements for that person.

6. At the boundary optimum, a consumers indifference curve must be tangent to her budget line.

7. If two goods are substitutes, then an increase in the price of one of them will increase the demand for the other.

8. An Engel curve is a demand curve with the vertical and horizontal axes reversed.

9. An inferior good is less durable than a normal good.

10. When other variables are held fixed, the demand for a Giffen good rises when income increase.

budget line

marginal utility

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substitution effect

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income effect

transitive property of preferences

indifference curves

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utility function

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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