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Suppose your tastes are defined by the utility function .
a.Suppose your income is $1,000, the price of is 1 and the price of
is
.Set up your utility maximization problem.
b.Derive the quantity of you will consume.
c.What happens to your consumption of if
increases?
d.Now suppose that your and my tastes are captured by the utility function , with the parameter
different for you than it is for me.When
increases, you consume more
than before and I consume less.What range of
is consistent with your behavior, and what range is consistent with mine? Use your answer to (b) to explain.
Input
Resources such as labor, materials, and capital that are used in the production process to create goods or services.
Returns To Scale
The speed at which production levels rise in reaction to an equal rise in all resources, including labor and capital.
Marginal Product
The extra output or benefit received from using one additional unit of a resource.
Factor X
A term used to denote an unknown or unspecified factor in various contexts, such as productivity, growth, or other economic models.
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