Loose-leaf Microeconomics With Connect Access Card
2nd Edition
ISBN: 9780077716325
Author: B. Douglas Bernheim Lewis & Virginia Eaton Professor
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Mark can work up to 80 hours each week at a pre-tax hourly wage of $20 but faces a constant 20 percent tax on his earnings. Thus, Mark maximizes his utility by choosing to work 50 hours per week. The government proposes a negative income tax whereby everyone is given $300 per week and anyone can supplement their income further by working. To pay for the negative income tax, tax on earnings will be increased to 50 percent.
On a single graph, draw Mark's original budget line and his budget line under the negative income tax.
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Muhammad’s demand for fresh fish is perfectly income inelastic, and his income increases. If Muhammad’s preferences for fish are well-behaved, show the effect of this increase in income on the change in his optimal choice of fresh fish, his expenditure on all other goods, and draw his income-consumption curve. Clearly label your graph.
(In this question we denote income by Y, not by W as in the lecture notes). The following figure shows a two-good consumption space for an agent. The horizontal axis measures good x and the vertical axis measures good y. There are three budget lines shown in the figure. The first budget line has vertical intercept Y/py and horizontal intercept Y/px. The second budget line has vertical intercept Y/p’y<Y/py, and horizontal intercept Y/px. The third budget line has vertical intercept Y/py, and horizontal intercept Y/p’x< Y/px. There are two indifference curves. These are downward sloping thin curves that do not touch. One of this curves intersects the first budget line only at bundle (3,2). The other curve intersects the second budget line only at (4,0.6) and intersects the third budget line only at (1,2.5).
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