apples is 1‚ the price of bananas is 2‚ and Charlie’s income is 40. (a) On the graph below‚ use blue ink to draw Charlie’s budget line. (Use a ruler and try to make this line accurate.) Plot a few points on the indifference curve that gives Charlie a utility of 150 and sketch this curve with red ink. Now plot a few points on
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For Monash University Students: If you have studied intermediate level microeconomics this will be easy reading. Please assist fellow students. Financial Markets bring together borrowers and lenders of funds. They bring aggregate saving into equality with aggregate investment. Consumers have different time preferences for their consumption. Producers use capital until its marginal revenue productivity equals its opportunity cost in interest charges. These are Paretian optimal solutions for welfare
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The Utility Concept in Economics I. Background. Utility is a measurement of consumer preferences made under a variety of assumptions with respect to the decision context being studied. The point of the utility measurement is to enable the study of behavior within the framework of the assumptions made in a fashion that takes advantage of mathematical tools. There are three decision frameworks: Certainty: The consumer knows without risk or uncertainty the outcome of making a choice. Choices
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their profit maximising output‚ as they cannot accurately marginal revenue and marginal cost. Frequently the day to day pricing decisions of firms are taken on the basis of projected demand conditions rather than any systematic calculation of a demand curve. As most of today’s firms operate in a range of separate markets‚ the sheer volume of information that they need to process can be vast. On top of this they need to keep track of the ever changing consumer preferences and tastes as well as evolving
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6 Most Important Things to Consider When Choosing a Broker The retail forex market is so competitive that just thinking about having to sift through all the available brokers can give you a major headache. Choosing which broker to trade with can be a very overwhelming task especially if you don’t know what you should be looking for. In this section‚ we will discuss the qualities you should look for when picking a broker. 1. Security The first and foremost characteristic that a good broker must
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of an indifference curve? Question 5 answers | | An indifference curve is convex to the origin / | | | The consumer is indifferent between any two points on an indifference curve / | | | The marginal rate of substitution diminishes as you move down the indifference curve | / | | As you move from one indifference curve to another indifference curve closer to the origin‚ utility increases | An indifference curve is Question 6 answers
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In-arrear swaps are popular products in a steep yield curve environment to a fix rate receiver who thinks that short term rates will not rise as fast as the yield curve predicts‚ pocketing up the difference between the fix rate of the standard swap and the one of the in-arrear swap known as the pick up‚ while still paying low Libor resets. Usually‚ clients (corporates or financial institutions) receive fix and pay floating. In a steep yield curve environment‚ because of the delayed resets‚ an in-arrear
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because firms have more attractive investment opportunities. Both the supply and demand curves (Bd and Bs) shift to the right‚ but as is indicated in the text‚ the demand curve probably shifts less than the supply curve so the equilibrium interest rate rises. Similarly‚ when the economy enters a recession‚ both the supply and demand curves shift to the left‚ but the demand curve shifts less than the supply curve so that the interest rate falls. The conclusion is that interest rates rise during booms
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cardinal approach 5.6 Consumer’s surplus 5.7 The ordinal utility approach to consumer behaviour: the indifference curve approach 5.8 Consumer’s budget constraint 5.9 Consumer’s equilibrium in the ordinal utility approach 5.10 Special cases 5.11 Price-consumption curve 5.12 Income-consumption curve 5.13 Price‚ substitution‚ and income effects 5.14 Derivation of the demand curve for a good 5.15 Inferior goods and Giffen goods 5.16 Let us sum up 5.17 Some key words 5.18 Some useful books
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be falling. C) can be less than zero. D) never equals average product. Ans: C Exhibit 3 4. (Exhibit 3: Short-Run Costs) Curve A is the _______ cost curve. A) average total B) average variable C) marginal D) total Ans: C Exhibit 4 5. (Exhibit 4: A Firm ’s Cost Curves) The curve labeled V represents the firm ’s _______ curve. A) total cost B) average total cost C) marginal cost D) average variable cost Exhibit 5 | | 6. | (Exhibit 5:
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