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ECO 561T Apply Week 4 Assignment New
ECO 561T Apply Week 4 Assignment
1) The optimal amount of information to acquire before making a purchase is:
2) This graph illustrates the marginal costs and marginal benefits of acquiring information before making a major purchase.
Suppose the marginal cost and marginal benefit curves were MC0 and MB0 several decades ago. However, because information about this product is now available online, the:
3) The free-rider problem occurs when:
4) Pat goes to the local electronics store to learn about high-end audio equipment. The salesperson spends an hour talking with Pat and demonstrating equipment. Pat then leaves and orders an audio system on the Internet for $250 less than the price at the store. Pat’s behavior:
5) Obi-Wan is considering whether to buy a lightsaber. With probability 0.50 he will value the lightsaber at $4,000, and with probability 0.50 he will value it at $1,000. If new lightsabers sell for $2,500, then buying a new lightsaber is a:
6) Suppose Mo is considering whether to see Zombie Revenge III at her local movie theater. Tickets cost $12 each, but Mo isn’t sure how much she’s going to like the movie. There’s a 40 percent chance she’ll get $20 worth of enjoyment from seeing the movie, and there’s a 60 percent chance she’ll only get $10 worth of enjoyment from seeing the movie. Mo’s expected value of seeing the movie is:
7) Mel is thinking of going on a cruise. Mel values a cruise in nice weather at $2,000 and values a cruise in bad weather at $50. The probability of nice weather is 60 percent and the probability of bad weather is 40 percent. Trip insurance is sometimes available. If purchased, it allows travelers to delay the cruise until the weather is nice. If Mel is risk-neutral, then in the absence of trip insurance, the most she will be willing to pay for the cruise is:
8) Mel is thinking of going on a cruise. Mel values a cruise in nice weather at $2,000 and values a cruise in bad weather at $50. The probability of nice weather is 60 percent and the probability of bad weather is 40 percent. Trip insurance is sometimes available. If purchased, it allows travelers to delay the cruise until the weather is nice. The amount of money that Mel is willing to pay for trip insurance will be:
9) A gamble that offers a 1 percent chance of winning $699.93 and a 99 percent chance of losing $7.07 would be classified as a(n):
10) If a gamble has an expected value of $10, then one can predict that:
11) Suppose that the salary range for recent college graduates with a bachelor’s degree in economics is $30,000 to $50,000, with 25 percent of jobs offering $30,000 per year, 50 percent offering $40,000 per year and 25 percent offering $50,000 per year and that in all other respects, the jobs are equally satisfying. Assume that in this market, a job offer remains open for only a short time so that continuing to search requires an applicant to reject any current job offer. The expected starting salary for a college graduate with a bachelor’s degree in economics is:
12) Suppose that the salary range for recent college graduates with a bachelor’s degree in economics is $30,000 to $50,000, with 25 percent of jobs offering $30,000 per year, 50 percent offering $40,000 per year and 25 percent offering $50,000 per year and that in all other respects, the jobs are equally satisfying. Assume that in this market, a job offer remains open for only a short time so that continuing to search requires an applicant to reject any current job offer. Who will accept an offer of $30,000?
13) Alex, who is risk-neutral, is looking for a one-bedroom apartment to rent for the month of August while he’s on vacation in Seattle. All of the one-bedroom apartments in the neighborhood where he wants to stay are of equal quality, but 70 percent rent for $700 per month, 20 percent rent for $600 per month, and 10 percent rent for $500 per month. The first apartment Alex finds rents for $700 per month. Suppose Alex is risk-averse. If the cost to Alex of searching for another apartment is $40, then will he search for another apartment?
14) Suppose that there is not enough parking at an urban university. Sometimes students come to campus, spend a few minutes searching for a parking spot, and then decide that going to class isn’t worth the effort of continuing to search for a parking spot, so they go home. Assume that all professors give midterm exams on the same day. You would expect the optimal amount of time spent searching for a parking spot on that day to _____ because ______.
15) There are two employers in Bucolic that hire people who do not have a high school degree: a grocery store and a hardware store. The grocery store pays $10 per hour and the hardware store pays $12 per hour. People who work at either store can work as many hours as they want at those wages. Assume that it takes two hours to interview for a job. Lee works at the grocery store, but would like to work at the hardware store. If Lee interviews at the hardware store, there is a 10 percent probability of being hired. Assume that Lee is risk-neutral. How many hours must Lee anticipate working at the hardware store to justify interviewing for the job?
16) In the market for labor, the demand function describes
17) Technological advances that increase the marginal product of labor will lead to:
18) Kyle works for a perfectly competitive firm where he receives a wage rate of $15. From this, one can infer that:
19) The general rule governing the hiring of workers is to:
20) In order to maximize its profits, a firm that hires workers in a perfectly competitive labor market will hire workers until the:
21) In a perfectly competitive labor market, if the value of marginal product of the last worker hired is $20 and the wage rate is $25, then the firm should:
22) To derive the labor demand curve for a particular market, one should ______for all the firms in the market.
23) Suppose it is observed that the equilibrium wage and employment level have both risen in a competitive labor market. One can infer that the:
24) In a competitive labor market, the equilibrium wage rate is determined by:
25) Suppose that this graph describes the current labor market for high school teachers:
If the wage is w*, then:
26) Suppose that this graph describes the current labor market for high school teachers:
Why might the supply curve in this market shift to the left?
27) Suppose that this graph describes the current labor market for high school teachers:
Given an initial wage of w*, then immediately following a decrease in supply:
28) A reduction in workers’ marginal productivity would result in:
29) A decrease in demand for a firm’s output results in a(n):
30) Assume that the graph below describes the current labor market for nurses in a mid-sized city and that the labor market is perfectly competitive.
If supply shifts from S0 to S1 and demand shifts from D0 to D1, then