Consumer theory

Q1 (a) The demand can be defined as willingness and ability of consumers to pay and supply can be defined as the willingness and ability to sell. Besides, a tax is a type of measurement for the government to regulate the market and it can get a revenue from that. In fact, a tax will make both supply and demand decrease because buyers should pay a higher price and sellers will spend cost more money to supply. The diagram of tax on sellers will be shown following. As shown in diagram (a), the…

nfluence of Annual Household Income on Going to College Introduction: There comes a time when some families must make the decision of whether or not to send a child to college. There are many benefits to a college education that become noticeable throughout a person’s life such as a higher salary than those of an individual without a college degree. College may also produces a multitude of long term setbacks to overcome with the largest being debt. Therefore the family must consider a…

Positive correlation: If the increase or decrease in one variable affects the increase or decrease in another variable, we say that the two variables are positively correlated. Negative correlation: If the increase or decrease in one variable affects the decrease or increase in another variable, we say that the two variables are negatively correlated. Correlation coefficient: It studies about the degree of the relationship between the two variables. Or it studies about the strength of the two…

1. Demand is the quantity demanded of goods and services at a given time. Demand has an inverse relationship as the law of demand states: as price increases, Qd decreases and as prices decreases, Qd increases. The relationship is negative therefore the demand curve is a downward curve with a negative slope. If a carpet costs 10kwd, there is 20Qd. When the prices decreases to 5KWD, Qd increases to 40. When price increases to 15KD, Qd for carpets decreases to 10. Supply is the quantity supplied…

1.What does a supply curve illustrate? What would make the supply curve shift? Provide two examples from the market for orange juice where supply contracts (curve shifts left). The supply curve illustrates the how much the sellers are willing to supply a good at different prices, as the price goes up the supply will increase and as the price goes down the supply will decrease. The supply curve shifts because of changes in costs or technology innovations, these changes can shift the supply curve…

word iso, meaning equal) is a contour line joining the set of all points at which a quantity of output is produced while varying quantities of two and/or more inputs. An indifference curve mapping helps us to arrive at the utility-maximization of consumers, the isoquant mapping deals with the cost-minimization of producers. Isoquants are ideally drawn alongside isocost curves in capital-labour graphs, showing the technological trade-off between capital and labour in the production function, and…

In chapter 11, Ariely talks about the power of price and the placebo effect which falls into relation with chapter 10. The placebo effect in regards to our irrational behavior as Ariely explains; “beliefs and expectations affect how we perceive and interpret sights, tastes, and other sensory phenomena, but also that our expectations can affect us by altering our subjective and even more objective experiences. Ariely brings up several interesting examples regarding the placebo effect and the way…

Research question: How does the mass (grams[±0.1g]) on one side of a pulley affect the mass (grams), and create equilibrium? Hypothesis: If the differences in masses (grams{±0.1g}) on each side of the pulley increases, then the mass in the middle of the two pulleys will be required to increase, because they will have to balance out each other’s mass to establish equilibrium. If the mass (grams{±0.1g}) on a side of a pulley decreases, then the mass in the middle of the two pulleys will be…

Growing up, we have all experienced the pressures of utility. According to Jeremy Benthem, utility is defined as, “the property in any object, whereby it tends to produce benefits, advantage, pleasure, good or happiness, to prevent the happening of mischief, pain, evil, or unhappiness to the party whose interests is considered.” Today in more modern terms, we could call it people pleasing. It is from this principle where we get utilitarianism, a property that is characterized by the principle…

between the two types of goods nor does he address the service maintenance aspect of public goods at all. The assumption that consumers are free to move to any community although it applies to lifestyle city’s affluent population often tend to get away from dense areas thus raising the cost of suburban or near rural areas. It then increases the inefficiency of mobility from a consumer…