Microeconomics: Principles & Policy
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ISBN: 9781337794992
Author: William J. Baumol, Alan S. Blinder, John L. Solow
Publisher: Cengage Learning
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In the discussion of Figure 3, there is a set of numbers indicating how much different buyers would be willing to pay for a book. Construct a table for these buyers, like the first three columns in Table 1 Indicating their consumer surpluses.
There are six potential consumers of computer games, each willing to buy only one game. Consumer 1 is willing to pay $40 for a computer game, consumer 2 is willing to pay $35, consumer 3 is willing to pay $30, consumer 4 is willing to pay $25, consumer 5 is willing to pay $20, and consumer 6 is willing to pay $15.
Suppose the market price is $29. What is the total consumer surplus?
The market price decreases to $19. What is the total consumer surplus now?
When the price falls from $29 to $19, how much does each consumer’s individual
consumer surplus change? How does total consumer surplus change?
Consumer surplus is calculated by taking the difference of the price consumers are willing to pay and the price actually paid.
When the price is $4, the consumer would buy only two bottles because the value the consumer would get from the first bottle is $7. This implies, the surplus is $3.
Similarly for the second bottle, the value the consumer would get from consuming it is $5 where the price the consumer will pay is $4, this implies the surplus is $1.
Lastly, for the third bottle the value is $3 and the price is $4 so the price surpasses the value, therefore the consumer will not consumer beyond two bottles.
The consumer surplus could be calculated as:
Consumer Surplus = (7-4) + (5-4)
= 3 + 1
= 2
This means the consumer will buy two bottles.
If the price falls to $2, the consumer would only buy three bottles because the value the consumer gets from the first bottle valued at $7 versus the $2 paid implies a consumer…
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