6. Optimize the Cobb-Douglas production function given the following parameters. The maximum about of money available to spend is $1, 600 where the price of K = 12 and the price of L = 6. That is P = 12 and P = 6. The function is given as q = K0.4L0.6. Using the Lagrangian method, what are the optimal values of Ko and Lo?
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- Returns to scale in production: Do the following production functions exhibitincreasing, constant, or decreasing returns to scale in K and L? (Assume Ais some fxed positive number.)(a) Y = K1/2L1/2(b) Y = K2/3L2/3(c) Y = K1/3L1/2(d) Y = K + L(e) Y = K + K1/3L1/3 (f ) Y = K 1/3L2/3 + A (g) Y = K 1/3L2/3 − AA bitcoin miner, Alex, needs only electricity (E) and computer (K) to mine bitcoin. Assume that the production function for his bitcoin business is of Cobb-Douglas type,?(?,?)=???? with?+?< 1, resulting in strictly convex isoquants and is the same in South Korea and USA. Suppose that, similar to the podcast, the price per unit of electricity is higher in South Korea than in USA. Suppose that the price of a computer is the same in both countries. i. Determine whether it is more expensive to mine one bitcoin in South Korea than in USA based on the above assumptions by using appropriate diagram and explain your answer. Please keep electricity on the horizontal axis and computer on the vertical axis while drawing your diagram.A firm’s production function is given by q = min{M, L1/2}, where M is the number of machines and L is the amount of labor that it uses. The price of labor is $1and the price of machines is $2 per unit. a. Is this technology decreasing return to scale? Show your argument. b. Is it true the statement that if average production cost is increasing, a firm’s technology exhibits the decreasing return to scale. (If yes, show the proof. If not, show a counter example) c. Is it true that if a firm’s technology exhibits the decreasing return to scale, then average production cost is increasing? (If yes, show the proof. If not, show a counter example)
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