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Microecon chapter 6 Flashcards

1
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Preference

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What you like / don’t like

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Utility

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Benefit / satisfaction from consuming a good or service

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3
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Total utility and quantity relation

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Positive
low level => high increase
high level -> low increase

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Marginal utility and quantity relation

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Negative

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5
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Marginal utility formula

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ΔTU/ΔQ = ΔTU/1

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6
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How to maximize total utility

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Spreadsheet solution

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7
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Consumer equilibrium

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Highest total utility

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8
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Utility maximizing formula

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MUA/PA = MUB/PB

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Income effect (IE)

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ΔQd as a result of a Δ in real income

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Substitution effect

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ΔQd as a result of a Δ in relative price (always moves in the opposite direction of the ΔP)

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Marginal rate of substitution (MRS)

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Rate at which consumer give up good x for more good y and remain indifferent

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Indifference curve (IC)

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Line that shows the combination of goods among which a consumer is indifferent

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Slope of IC

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Tangent line to IC

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Diminishing MRS

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As we consume more of y, we progressively consume less of x

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14
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How to max utility with IC

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Best affordable point on the highest IC

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15
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Income consumption curve (ICC)

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Shows how purchases react to a ΔI

16
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ICC positive slope

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Normal good

17
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ICC negative slope

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Inferior good

18
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Price consumption line

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How do purchases Δ when P change

19
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Giffen goods

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Product with a positively sloped demand curve

20
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Griffen goods characteristics (2)

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  • Inferior good
  • Takes a large portion of total household expenditure (large income effect)
21
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Conspicuous consumption goods

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Goods with “snob appeal”

22
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Paradox of value

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Why some essentials to life are low price and some non-essentials to life high price?

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