ECON 102 Quiz: ECON 102 UW Madison Quiz4Summer2015

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Please write your answers neatly and legibly: use the simple keynesian model developed in class to analyze the economy described by the following information. Tr = 0 (there are no transfers in this economy) Yfe = y full employment = 150: (1 point) examine this data. Explain your answer. (1 point) examine this data. Explain your answer: (1 point) determine the equilibrium level of gdp for this economy. Show any formulas you use and show your work to get full credit for this answer: (2 points) consider your answer in (c) and compare it to yfe. 1 (1 point) suppose the government decides to enact fiscal policy in order to reach full employment. Suppose the government enacts a change in government spending to reach this goal. Calculate what this change in government spending must be in order for this economy to reach full employment. Show your work: consider the ad/as model of the aggregate economy developed in class.

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Q 1: Below is a production possibilities table for consumer goods and capital goods : Production Alternatives Capital Goods Consumer Goods A 0 70 B 3 65 C 6 55 D 9 40 E 12 20 F 15 0 a. Show these data graphically. Upon what speciﬁc assumptions is this production possibilities curve based? b. If the economy is at point C, what is the cost of one more unit of capital good? Of one more unit of consumer good? Explain how the production possibilities curve reﬂects the law of increasing opportunity costs. c. If the economy characterized by this production possibilities table and curve were producing 7 units of capital goods and 45 units of consumer goods, what could you conclude about its use of its available resources? d. What would production at a point outside the production possibilities curve indicate? What must occur before the economy can attain such a level of production? e. Assume consumer good are bread and cookies here. What happens to this frontier if disease kills half of the economy’s hens and cows? Q 2(a): How does self-interest help achieve society’s economic goals? Why is there such a wide variety of desired goods and services in a market system? In what way are entrepreneurs and businesses at the helm of the economy but commanded by consumers? b. Why is private property, and the protection of property rights, so critical to the success of the market system? c. How the market system decides what to produce, how to produce it, and who obtains it. Q 3: How will each of the following changes in demand and/or supply affect equilibrium price and equilibrium quantity in a competitive market; that is, do price and quantity rise, fall, or remain unchanged, or are the answers indeterminate because they depend on the magnitudes of the shifts? Use supply and demand diagrams to verify your answers. i. Supply decreases and demand is constant. ii. Demand increases and supply increases. iii. Supply increases and demand decreases. b. Explain why the price in competitive markets settles down at the equilibrium intersection of supply and demand. Explain what happens if the market price starts out too high or too low. c. Consider the following events: Scientists reveal that consumption of oranges decreases the risk of Corona Virus and, at the same time, farmers use a new fertilizer that makes orange trees more productive. Illustrate and explain what effect these changes have on the equilibrium price and quantity of oranges.

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