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Welfare Economics and British Columbia Econ
University of British Columbia
Econ 451
Assignment 1

Instructor: Alfred Kong
Due date: 29th September 2011

The assignment is due at the beginning of the class. Late assignment will not be accepted. You may work in a group of up to 5 people.

Question 1

A new health minister proposes to distribute an apple a day for free to every citizen. To be effective the legislation states that the free apples may not be traded or sold. Explain why this “no trade” policy would be inefficient.

Question 2

Consider a simple economy with two individuals, John and Marsha. The economy is endowed with 30 kilograms of cheese and 30 loaves of bread each month. John and Marsha’s preferences for bread and cheese are given by their marginal rate of substitution of bread for cheese:

Marsha: John:
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Where [pic] is the quantity of bread consumed by Marsha and [pic] is the quantity of bread consumed by John.

a) If each individual only had one loaf of bread, how much cheese would each individual be willing to give up in order to have another loaf of bread?
b) In the initial allocation, each individual has 15 kilograms of cheese and 15 loaves of bread. Draw the Edgeworth Box diagram for this economy and explain whether the initial allocation of cheese and bread is Pareto efficient.
c) Draw the contract curve for this economy.

Question 3

For each of the following situations, is the Coase Theorem applicable? Why or why not?
a) A group of university students in a residence share a communal kitchen. Some of the users of the kitchen never clean up the messes they make when cooking.
b) The pollution from a copper smelter drifts out over a surrounding residential area.
c) Loud gasoline-powered leaf blowers are used by some homeowners for driving leaves and other debris into piles, but also driving leaves and dust into the yards of neighbours.

Question 4

The government of British Columbia has suggested a “cash-for-clunkers” program. Under

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