The price elasticity of demand is -1.25, and the price
elasticity of supply is 1.25. What is the consumer's burden from a
26 cent tax?
a. 13 cents
b. 26 cents
c. Insufficient information to know
Income Elasticity of Demand characterizes how the demand for a good changes when consumer or
customer income changes. This responsiveness to income also tells
you whether the good in question is considered to be a normal good,
or an inferior good.Firstly, define what exactly we mean in economics by a normal
good and an inferior good?In two different articles in the 90’s some economists estimated
the following income elasticities of demand for three goods. Based
on the estimates below, which goods...
Question 31:
Is
having a large amount of debt relative to your disposable income a
good thing or a bad thing, give 2 reasons why?
Question 32:
What
does “lending standards for home buyers are weak” mean?
Question 33:
What
does a mortgage down payment mean?
Question 34:
What is
the Federal Reserve System?
a. the
nation’s central bank
b. the
U.S. Department of Banking
c. U.S.
Department of the Treasury, Banking Division
d. the
legal requirement that interest must...
1.
What is a Giffen good and what is a Veblen good? What are price and income elasticity of demand of a Giffen good and a Veblen good?
2.
Explain how a firm in a perfect competition market decides the optimal quantity of production.
11. If “correlation does not imply causation,” what does it
imply?
12. What are some of the possible reasons for large correlations
between a pair of variables, X and Y?
17.What assumptions are required for a correlation to be a valid
description of the relation between X and Y?
Suppose the income elasticity of a good is negative. Is the good
a normal good? Explain.
Suppose the cross elasticity of demand for two goods is
negative. What does that indicate about the goods?
if a good has a
negative income elasticity of demand, this indicates that the good
is
A. substitute
with another good
B.
Inferior
C. Normal
D. A
complement with another good.
1. What is the difference between a
good with a positive income elasticity and one with a negative
income elasticity? How do they each affect the demand
curve?
2. Assuming you could afford both, would you ever buy a
product that gave you less marginal utility than a similar
substitute product? Why or why not?