2010年AP微观经济学简答题真题+答案+PDF下载
1. Assume that corn is produced in a perfectly competitive market. Farmer Roy is a typical producer of corn.
(a) Assume that Farmer Roy is making zero economic profit in the short run. Draw a correctly labeled side-byside graph for the corn market and for Farmer Roy and show each of the following.
(i) The equilibrium price and quantity for the corn market, labeled as PM1 and QM1, respectively
(ii) The equilibrium quantity for Farmer Roy, labeled as QF1
(b) For Farmer Roy’s corn, is the demand perfectly elastic, perfectly inelastic, relatively elastic, relatively inelastic, or unit elastic? Explain.
(c) Corn can be used as an input in the production of ethanol. The demand for ethanol has significantly increased.
(i) Show on your graph in part (a) the effect of the increase in demand for ethanol on the market price and quantity of corn in the short run, labeling the new equilibrium price and quantity as PM2 and QM2,respectively.
(ii) Show on your graph in part (a) the effect of the increase in demand for ethanol on Farmer Roy’s quantity of corn in the short run, labeling the quantity as QF2.
(iii) How does the average total cost for Farmer Roy at QF2 compare with PM2?
(d) Corn is also used as an input in the production of cereal. What is the effect of the increased demand for ethanol on the equilibrium price and quantity in the cereal market in the short run? Explain.
2. The John Lamb Company, a profit-maximizing firm producing widgets, is in a perfectly competitive widget market. Assume John Lamb employs a fixed number of employees and rents a machine for a variable number of hours from a perfectly competitive market.
(a) Using correctly labeled side-by-side graphs of the factor market for machines and the John Lamb Company,show each of the following.
(i) The equilibrium rental price of machines in the factor market, labeled as PR
(ii) John Lamb’s equilibrium rental quantity of machines, labeled as QL
(b) Assume that the popularity of widgets declines, decreasing the demand for widgets. What will happen to each of the following?
(i) Marginal product curve for machine-hours
(ii) Marginal revenue product curve for machine-hours. Explain.
(c) John Lamb is employing the cost-minimizing combination of inputs. The marginal product of labor is 28 widgets per worker hour and the wage rate is $14 per hour. The marginal product of the machine is 60 widgets per machine-hour. What is the hourly rental price of a machine?
3. The graph above shows the perfectly competitive market for hard candies in Country Alpha. In the graph the letters correspond to points, not areas. MPC denotes marginal private cost and MSB denotes marginal social benefit.
(a) Using the labeling on the graph, identify the area representing each of the following at the market equilibrium.
(i) The consumer surplus
(ii) The producer surplus
(b) Assume that the production of each unit of candy creates a negative externality equal to (p5-p2). Using the labeling on the graph, identify the socially optimal quantity.
(c) Assume that the government imposes a per-unit tax of (p5-p2) to correct for the negative externality.Using the labeling on the graph, identify the area representing each of the following.
(i) The consumer surplus
(ii) The deadweight loss
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