Microeconomics principles

... 17 9 18 0 18 1 18 2 18 2 18 3 18 4 18 6 18 8 19 0 19 1 19 3 19 4 19 5 19 6 19 7 19 8 19 9 200 2 01 204 206 208 209 210 212 213 215 215 217 218 9 .1 9.2 9.3 9.4 9.5 9.6 Alf, Bill, Charlie and the Bomb ... 14 3 14 3 14 4 14 5 14 7 14 7 14 9 15 1 15 2 15 2 15 6 15 7 16 0 16 2 16 3 16 6 16 7 16 7 17 1 17 2 17 2 vi CONTENTS Uncertainty and Risk 8 .1...

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... that 20 21 22 23 Explain why Vi may be zero for some, but not all goods i Use your answer to Chapter 2 footnote 16 (pages 25 and 525 ) to explain why this is so s Use (4 .27 ) to derive (4 .28 ) Show ... (4 .25 ) and = V (p; y) (4 .26 ) where y is both the minimised cost in (4.8) and the constraint income in (4 .24 ), 1while is both the constraint utility in (4.8) and the maxima...

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... 2 q : q1 + q2 + q3 + q4 0; q1 ; q2 0; q3 ; q4 n o B : q : q1 [ q2 ] [ q3 ] 0; q1 0; q2 ; q3 A : log (q2 q3 ) 0; q1 0; q2 ; q3 n q4 D : q : q1 + q2 + max q3 ; 0; q1 ; q2 0; q3 ; q4 C : q : log ... supply of output by …rms, depicted in Figures 3. 1 and 3. 2 There are similar caveats on aggregation and market equilibrium as for the …rm15 –see pages 51 to 53 for a reminder –but in the case...

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... UNCERTAINTY AND RISK Reading notes On the foundations of expected-utility analysis in terms of choices over lotteries refer to von Neumann and Morgenstern (1 944 ) and Friedman and Savage (1 948 ) and for ... de…nition of the risk premium (see page 49 4) 11 8 .4 RISK AVERSION 193 Figure 8.12: Concavity of u and risk aversion Relative risk aversion The second standard approach...

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... goods are Samuelson (1 954 , 1 955 ) 29 Prove this using the results from Chapter 9.8 EXERCISES 2 65 Keenan and Snow (1999) summarise a variety of criteria for potential superiority and the relationship ... welfare function s is attributable to Vickrey (19 45) and Harsanyi (1 955 ) On the social-welfare interpretation of inequality and income distribution and its relationship to r...

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... on the right-hand side of (10.30) and (10.31) are random variables and so the things on the left-hand side of (10.30) and (10.31) are also random Evaluating (10.29) with these random variables ... industry have constant and equal marginal costs c and face market demand schedule given by p = k q where k > c and q is total output What would be the solution to the Bertrand price sett...

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... (1 971 ), Groves (1 977 ), Groves and Loeb (1 975 ) and Green and La¤ont (19 97) For an exposition of the standard optimal-income tax model go to Salanié (2003) The classic reference is Mirrlees (1 971 ), ... to Myerson (1 979 ) and to Dasgupta et al (1 979 ), Harris and Townsend (1981) On auctions see Klemperer (1999, 2002) and Vickrey (1961) For the key references on “tipping me...

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... products and fats Fruits and vegetables Drink and Tobacco Household running expenses Durable goods Other goods and services 13 .8 = 1:025 11.1 8. 2 10.1 5.3 5.6 6.2 = 1:05 27 .8 18. 6 24.1 11.4 11 .8 13.4 ... of …rms see Baron and Myerson (1 982 ), Demsetz (19 68) and La¤ont and Tirole (1993) The classic treatment of the market approach to externalities is in Meade (1952) a...

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... economists such as Chiang ( 198 4), de la Fuente 520 APPENDIX A MATHEMATICS BACKGROUND ( 199 9), Ostaszewski ( 199 3), Simon and Blume ( 199 4) or Sydsæter and Hammond ( 199 5) A useful summary of results ... Sydsæter et al ( 199 9) On optimisation in economics see Dixit ( 199 0) and Sundaram (2002) For more on applications of convexity and …xed-point theorems see Green and Heller (...

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