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The participation of women in the Gambian labor force has risen dramatically since 2000.
How do you think this rise affected GDP?
Now imagine a measure of well-being that includes time spent working in the home and taking leisure. How would the change in this measure of well-being compare to the change in GDP?
Can you think of other aspects of well-being that are associated with the rise in women’s labor-force participation? Would it be practical to construct a measure of well-being that includes these aspects?
Suppose that a borrower and a lender agree on the nominal interest rate to be paid on a loan. Then inflation turns out to be higher than they both expected.
Is the real interest rate on this loan higher or lower than expected?
Does the lender gain or lose from this unexpectedly high inflation? Does the borrower gain or lose?
Inflation during the 1970s was much higher than most people had expected when the decade began. How did this affect homeowners who obtained fixed-rate mortgages during the 1960s? How did it affect the banks that lent the money?
A local swimming pool charges nonmembers $10 per visit. If you join the pool, you can swim for $5 per visit but you have to pay an annual fee of F. Use an optimal choice model to find the value of F such that you are indifferent between joining and not joining. Suppose that the pool charged you exactly that F. Would you go to the pool more or fewer times than if you did not join? For simplicity, assume that the price of all other goods is $1.
Ali optimal choice at pizzeria is one pizza and two colas at given prices and income. The pizzeria announces a special: All pizzas after the first one are half-price. Show the original and new budget constraint. What can you say about the bundle Ali will choose when faced with the new constraint?
a) If Maria’s utility function is U = A Xayb what is his marginal utility functions for X and Y? Find the MRS between x and y.
b) What is his marginal rate of substitution between X =3 and Y=4? If A=1, a = 0.4 and b = 0.5.
A university is deciding between two meal plans. One plan charges a fixed fee of $600 per semester and allows students to eat as much as they want. The other plan charges a fee based on the quantity of food consumed. Under which plan will students eat the most? Explain through economic theory.

a) Let a doctor earns $20 per hour, a plumber $ 5 per hour, and a professor $ 10 per hour. Everything else the same, which one will devote more hours to negotiating the price of a new car? Explain

b) What is the full cost (direct cost +opportunity) of pursuing BBA from IMSciences? Impose appropriate assumptions if exact value(s) of item(s) is/are not available.



Using a demand and supply diagram, analyse the effect of removing an indirect rax at the market for a product.


A local swimming pool charges nonmembers $10 per visit. If you join the pool, you can swim for $5 per visit but you have to pay an annual fee of F. Use an optimal choice model to find the value of F such that you are indifferent between joining and not joining. Suppose that the pool charged you exactly that F. Would you go to the pool more or fewer times than if you did not join? For simplicity, assume that the price of all other goods is $1.


If the money supply increases, will bond prices increase, decrease, or stay the same? Explain
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