课程名称︰个体经济学一 课程性质︰经济系大二必修 课程教师︰黄贞颖 开课学院：社会科学院 开课系所︰经济学系 考试日期（年月日）︰97/11/11 考试时限（分钟）：120mins 是否需发放奖励金：y 试题 : 1.There are only two goods in this world, apples and oranges. Denote the price of apples by Pa and that of oranges by Po. Denote a consumption bundle of x units of apples and y units of oranges by (x,y). John in Taipei is an utility maximizer. You observe that when Pa = 2 and Po = 1 and his income is 100 , his unique optimal choice is (25,50). Over a short period of time when his preference should be quite stable , you further observe that: when Pa = 1 and Po = 1 ,and his income is 100, his unique optimal choice is (50,50) ; when Pa = 1 and Po = 1 ,and his income is 75 ,his unique optimal choice is (37.5,37.5) (a)(20%) Decompose the total effect in apples into Slutsky substitution effect and income effect when the price of apples changes from 2 to 1 , the prices of oranges stays at 1 and John's income stay at 100. John in Kaohsiung is another utlity maximazer. You observe that when Pa = 3 and Po = 1 and his income is 60 , his unique optimal choice is (10,30). Over the same short period of time when his preference should be quite stable , you further observe that: when Pa = 1 and Po = 1 ,and his incomeis 60 , his unique optimal choice is (30,30); when Pa = 1 and Po = 3 ,and his income is 60 ,his unique optimal choice is (30,10). (b)(20%)We say that John in Taipei and John in Kaohsiung have the same preference if their prefernces are exactly the same so that whenever one weakly prefers a bundle to another bundle , so will the other and vice versa. From the data given you above , can you make a logical inference on whether it is possible that John in Taipei and John in Kaohsiung have the same preference? If you answer is positive,briefly explain why and make am educated guess about what their preference could be. If your answer is negative , briefly argue why it is impossible that they have the same preference. 2. Andrew loves to watch baseball games and play piano in his free time. To watch a baseball game ,you need to buy the game ticket and hotdogs (it is not a ballgame without hotdogs I can assure you). Therefore , each ball game costs Andrew 20 dollars. Typically , each ball game lasts for 2 hours. Andrew does not have a piano at home nearby. Hence to play piano , he has to go to a private lesson which costs 40 dollars per hour. Andrew is a wealthy professor, so he can spend as much as 200 dollars per week for his hobbies (ball games and piano lessons). However , since he is a chair in his department , he does not have much free time. Each week he has only 8 hours of free time at the most. Each week he has only 8 hours of free time at the most. In the following , assume that ball games and piano lessons can be consumed in continuous amounts and always put the number of hours of piano lessons on the x axis and the number of ball games on the y. (a) (20%) Draw all the possible consumption choices of Andrew , taking into account of how much time and money he can spend each week. (b) (20%) Suppose Andrew take x hours of piano lessons and goes to y ball games per week ,then his happiness is x^2y . Find out the per week optimal consumption of Andrew in his free time and label this consumption in the diagram of your answer to (a). (c)(20%) In your answer to (b), is it true that the MRS at the optimal consumption tangent to some boundary line of all the possible consumption choices of Andrew? If so, prove it. Otherwise , explain intuitively why the tangency condition does not have to hold at this optimum, --

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