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Question 1 There are 10,000 identical individuals in the market for commodity X, each with a demand function given by Qodx = 12 - 2Px, and 1000 identical producers of commodity X, each with a function given by Qsx = 20 Px. where Qox is an individual's quantity demanded, Qsx is a single producer's quantity supplied, and Px is the price of the commodity. (a) Find the market demand function (QDx) and the market supply function (QSx) for commodity X (b) Determine the market demand schedule and the market supply schedule of commodity X (for whole dollar prices) and from them find the equilibrium price and the equilibrium quantity. (c) Plot, on one set of axes, the market demand curve and the market supply curve for commodity X and show the equilibrium point (d) Obtain the equilibrium price and the equilibrium quantity mathematically. (e) Explain why the equilibrium condition is considered stable. (f) Determine the elasticity of demand for commodity X at the equilibrium point. Question 2 Suppose that from the condition of equilibrium in Question 1, there is an increase in consumers' incomes (ceteris paribus) so that a new market demand curve is given by QDx = 140,000 - 20,000Px. (a) Derive the new market demand schedule (b) Show the new market demand curve on the graph used in Question 1(c) (c) State the new equilibrium price and equilibrium quantity for commodity X (d) Determine the Income Elasticity at the original equilibrium price and at the new equilibrium price. (Assume that the increase in income is 106). (e) In the light of your answer to 2 (d), comment on the nature of commodity X.1. We use the added variable technique to derive the variance ination factor (VIP). Consider a linear model of the form 91' =50+l31$1+l3213922+-"+}3p$a'p+zr, 5'3: 1:"'ana (1) where the errors are uncorrelated with mean zero and variance 02. Let X denote the n X p' predictor matrix and assume X is of full rank. We will derive the VIP for ip. The same derivation applies to any other coefcient simply by rearranging the columns of X. Let U denote the matrix containing the rst p' 1 columns of X and let z denote the the last column of X so that X = [U 2]. Then we can write the model in (1) as 50 x91 Y=[U z](,:J)+t-:=Ua+z6p+e with a: (2) x810. 1 Let 2 denote the vector of tted values from the least squares regression of z on the columns of U (Le. the regression of X.p on all the other variables), and let T : z 2 denote the residuals from that regression. Note that 'r' and 3 are not random, they are constant vectors obtained by linear transformations of z. (a) Show that the regression model in (2) can be rewritten in the form for some constant vector 6 of the same length as a. (Hint: z : i l 'r and 2? = U(UTU)_1UTz). (b) Show that UT? 2 0, a zero vector. (0) Obtain simplied expressions for the least squares estimators of 5 and 5?, showing, in particular, that 5,, : 'rTY/rT'r. (d) Based on Part (c) and the model assumptions, show that 0.2 ELK\"? _ is)? where :Eg-p is the LS tted value from regression X,D on the all the other predictor variables with an intercept. var(,p) : 4. Vacancy costs and the labor market. Consider the search-theoretic model of the labor market of Diamond {1982), Mortensen (1982} and Pissarides (1985). a. The equilibrium tightness of the labor market, 6", solves the following equation -ny-w luWWW Plot the left and the right hand side of the above equation as functions of 9 and identify 6'. k=so b. Using the same yaph as before, identify the effect of an incraese in the vacancy cost it: on the equilibrium tightness of the labor market. Interpret your nding. c. The equilibrium unemployment, n", and the equilibrium vacancies, v", solve simultaneously the following system of equations Plot the solutions to these two equations in a graph that has it on the horizontal axis and v on the vertical axis (Le. plot the Beveridge curve and the market tightness curve]. Identify n\" and 11*. (1. Using the same graph as before, illustrate the eifect of an increase in the vacancy cost I: on the equilibrium unemployment and vacancies. Interpret your ndings. e. Should the government intervene to lower unemployment in response to an increase in k