ECS3708 ASSEMMENT 2 SEMESTER 1 2024 Suppose that the consumer’s weekly utility function for consumption (C) and leisure (L) is explained by: U(C,L)=(C-200)(L-80) 	Assuming that there are 168 hours ...
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Economic cost - Explicit cost + opportunity cost
Opportunity cost - The value of all that must be sacrificed to do the activity.
Sunk cost - A cost that cannot be avoided regardless of future actions.
Reservation price - The minimum amount you would spend to do something.
Marginal cost - The cost of an additional unit.
Marginal benefit - The benefit of an additional unit.
MB = MC - Stop when marginal benefit = marginal cost
Price elasticity of demand - The percentage change in the quantity of a good demanded
that results from a 1 percent change in its price.
Elasticity of demand - εD = %∆QD / %∆P
Price Elasticity of Demand = % Change in Quantity Demanded / % Change in Price
Elasticity of supply - εS = %∆QS / %∆P
Elasticity - A measure of how much one economic variable responds to changes in
another economic variable.
Elastic - Less than -1
Unit Elastic - -1
Inelastic - Greater than -1
Normal Good - Income ↑ ⇒ Demand ↑ and Income ↓ ⇒ Demand ↓
Inferior Good - Income ↑ ⇒ Demand ↓ and Income ↓ ⇒ Demand ↑
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