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FACULTY OF ECONOMICS BRAWIJAYA UNIVERSITY


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CONCEPTUAL AND COMPUTATIONAL QUESTIONS OF EVEN SEMESTER 2012/2013 MANAGEMENT DEPARTMENT Course : Managerial Economics Lecture : Dimas Hendrawan, SE., MM. Duration : 60 minutes Notification : Closed Book Answer all of the questions:
1. The X corporation produces a good (called X) that is a normal good. Its competitor, Y corporation, makes a subtitute good that it markets under the name Y. Good Y is an inferior good. a. How will the demand for good X change if consumer incomes increase? b. How will the demand for good Y change if consumer decrease? c. How will the demand for good X change if the price of good Y decrease? 2. An economic consultant for X corp. recently provided the firms marketing manager with this estimate of the demand function for the firms product: Where represents the amount consumed of good X, is the price of good X, is the price of good Y, I is income, and represents the amount of advertising spent on good X. Suppose good X sells for $200 per unit, good Y sells for $15 per unit, the company utilizes 2,000 units of advertising, and consumer income is $10,000. How much of good X do consumers purchase? Are goods X and Y subtitutes or complements? Is good X a normal or an inferior good? Graph the demand curve for good X. 3. See the table below: Price of software

Quantity of Own Price Software Sold Elasticity $0 80 ... 5 70 ... 10 60 ... 15 50 ... 20 40 ... 25 30 ... 30 20 ... 35 10 ... 40 0 ... a. Complete the table b. Graph the demand curve, TR curve, and MR curve c. Describe the graph completely

Total Revenue ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ...

Marginal Revenue ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ...

4. A consumer must divide $250 between the consumption of product X and product Y. The relevant market prices are and a. Write the equation for the consumers budget line. b. Illustrate the consumers opportunity set in carefully labeled diagram. c. Show how the consumers opportunity set changes when the price of good X increase to $10. How does this change alter the market rate of subtitution between goods X and Y?

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