MEC-001 - ENG-J18 - Compressed PDF
MEC-001 - ENG-J18 - Compressed PDF
SECTION A
Answer any two questions from this section. 2x20=40
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(a) Find all values of A and B that are
consistent with the aggregate excess
demand functions being derived from
utility maximisation subject to a budget
constraint.
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(b) An owner o f a restaurant plans to employ a
manager. The manager can exert high
effort or low effort in running the
restaurant. Putting high effort costs
2 due to the reduction of his utility. This
effort is unobservable to the owner. The
manager could get utility 10 from his
outside option.
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then the restaurant is profitable with
probability 0.8 and unprofitable with
probability 0.2.
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3. Suppose that the market demand is described by
P = 120 — (Q + q), where Q = output of the
incumbent, q = output of the potential entrant,
and P = market price.
The incumbent's cost function is given by
TC (Q) = 60 Q while the cost function of the
entrant is given by TC (Q) = 60 q + 80.
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SECTION B
Player B
Rock 0, 0 —1, 1 1, —1
Player A Paper 1, —1 0, 0 — 1, 1
Scissors 1, —1 1, —1 0, 0
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(b) What is the premium to be fixed that
allows the insurance company to exactly
break even in this case ?
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9. On the island of Andaman there are two lakes
and 20 fishing hooks. Each hook can fish on
either lake and keep the average catch on a
particular lake. On lake X, the total number of
2
fish caught is given by F x = 10 lX — 1 , where
2
/x is the number of people fishing on the lake. For
lake Y, the relationship is FY = 5 l y. What will be
the number of fish caught on this island ?
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11. The utility maximisation problem of a consumer
is given as
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