- Firm’s cost function shows the relationship between total cost (C) and output (Q).
- Derive the cost function by minimizing C = 2K + 10L subject to a production function of Q = K5L0.3.
- Does the average cost (AC) increase with output level? Show your work.
- Is the marginal cost (MC) greater than the average cost? Show your work.
- Suppose that a consumer has a Cobb-Douglas utility function U(X,Y)=100X0.4Y0.8 , where X and Y are quantities of goods X and Y consumed, with a budget constraint of PxX + PyY = M, where Px, Py, and M are the price of X, price of Y, and income (money), respectively.
- Determine the demand functions of goods X and Y,
- Write out the indirect utility function, V,
- Prove that λ = ∂V/∂M.
- Given an (inverse) demand function P = 485 – 5Q and the marginal cost curve
MC = 5 – Q + Q2. (Keep at least two decimal points in your calculations.)
- Determine the social optimal price and quantity.
- Find consumer and producer surpluses under the social optimal condition.
- Determine the monopolistic price and quantity.
- Find consumer and producer surpluses under the monopoly condition.
- What is the deadweight loss caused by monopoly?