In: Economics
Show the Edgeworth box fully labeled Jason and Clay love cheese and cola. Jason has an initial endowment of 4 bottles of cola and 1 cheese bar. Clay has an initial endowment of no cola and 5 cheese bars. They have no other assets and make no trades with anyone other than each other. For Jason, utility function is Cobb-Douglas, U(x, y) = xy, where x is the number of the bottles of cola and y is the number of cheese bars he consumes. For Clay, cola (x) and cheese bar(s) (y) are perfect complements, his utility function is U(x, y) = min(x, y). (a) Draw the Edgeworth box with cola (x) on the horizontal axis and cheese bar(s) (y) on the vertical axis. Measure Jason's consumption from the lower left corner of the box.