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This document is an economics homework assignment that contains 6 questions. Question 1 asks students to categorize airplane transactions into components of expenditure. Question 2 asks students to compute GDP, price indexes, and inflation using data on bread and automobiles. Question 3 asks students to compute consumer price indexes and spending on apples. Question 4 asks students to predict the impact of immigration, natural disasters, technology, and inflation using economic theory. Question 5 asks students about income shares, output, and prices using a Cobb-Douglas production function. Question 6 asks students to compute savings and interest rates using economic equations.

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This document is an economics homework assignment that contains 6 questions. Question 1 asks students to categorize airplane transactions into components of expenditure. Question 2 asks students to compute GDP, price indexes, and inflation using data on bread and automobiles. Question 3 asks students to compute consumer price indexes and spending on apples. Question 4 asks students to predict the impact of immigration, natural disasters, technology, and inflation using economic theory. Question 5 asks students about income shares, output, and prices using a Cobb-Douglas production function. Question 6 asks students to compute savings and interest rates using economic equations.

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Econ303 Homework Assignment 1 Spring 2013 Due Tuesday February 5

Name:

Section:

1.

Place each of the following transactions in one of the four components of expenditure: consumption, investment,, government purchases, and net exports. a. Boeing sells an airplane to the Air Force.

b.

Boeing sells an airplane to American Airlines.

c.

Boeing sells an airplane to Air France.

d.

Boeing sells an airplane to Amelia Earhart.

2.

Consider an economy that produces and consumes bread and automobiles. In the following tables are data for two different years 2000 Good Automobiles Bread Quantity 100 500,000 Price $50,000 $10 Quantity 120 400,000 2010 Price $60,000 $20

a.

Using 2000 as the base year, compute the following statistics for each year: nominal GDP, the implicit price deflator for GDP, and a fixed-weight price index such as the CPI.

b.

How much did prices rise between 2000 and 2010? Compute the answers given by the Laspeyres and Paasche price indexes. Explain the difference.

c.

Suppose you are a senator writing a bill to index Social Security and federal pensions. That is, your bill will adjust these benefits to offset changes in the cost of living. Will you use the GDP deflator or the CPI? Why?

3.

Abby consumes only apples. In year 1, red apples cost $1 each, green apples cost $2 each, and Abby buys 10 red apples. In year 2, red apples cost $2, green apples cost $1, and Abby buys 10 green apples. a. Compute a consumer price index for apples for each year. Assume that year 1 is base year in which the consumer basket is fixed. How does your index change from year 1 to year2?

b.

Compute Abbys nominal spending on apples in each year. How does it change from year 1 to year 2?

c.

Using year 1 as the base year, compute Abbys real spending on apples in each year. How does it change from year 1 to year 2?

d.

Defining the implicit price deflator as nominal spending divided by real spending, compute the deflator for each year. How does the deflator change from year 1 to year 2?

e.

Suppose that Abby is equally happy eating red or green apples. How much has the true cost of living increased for Abby? Compare this answer to your answers to parts (a) and (d). What does this example tell you about Laspeyres and Paasche price indexes?

4. a.

Use the neoclassical theory of distribution to predict the impact on real wage and the real rental price of capital of each of the following events: A wave of immigration increases the labor force.

b.

An earthquake destroys some of the capital stock.

c.

A technological advance improves the production function.

d.

High inflation doubles the prices of all factors and outputs in the economy.

5.

Suppose that an economys production function is Cobb -Douglas ( 0.3 a. What fractions of income do capital and labor receive?

, with parameter =

b.

Suppose that immigration increases the labor force by 10 percent. What happens to total output (in percent)? The rental price of capital? The real wage?

c.

Suppose that a gift of capital from abroad raises the capital stock by 10 percent. What happens to total output (in percent)? The rental price of capital? The real wage?

d.

Suppose that a technological advance raises the value of the parameter A by 10 percent. What happens to total output (in percent)? The rental price of capital? The real wage?

6.

Consider an economy described by the following equations:

a.

In this economy, compute private saving, public saving, and national saving.

b.

Find the equilibrium real interest rate.

c.

Now suppose that G rises to 1,250. Compute private saving, public saving, and national saving.

d.

Find the new equilibrium real interest rate.

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