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标题[试题] 98下 林明仁 经济学原理与实习二 期中考
时间Fri Apr 23 17:32:11 2010
课程名称︰经济学原理与实习二
课程性质︰必修兼通识A5
课程教师︰林明仁
开课学院:社科院
开课系所︰经济系
考试日期(年月日)︰2010/04/23
考试时限(分钟):180
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试题 :
总分:100分
一、选择题(每题皆须附上说明,否则不予计分)(40 points)
1. A consumer is currently spending all of her avalilable income on two
goods: music CDs and DVDs. At her current consumption bundle she is
spending twice as mush on CDs as she is on DVDs. If the consumer has
$120 of income and is consuming 10 CDs and DVDs, what is the price
of a CD?
a. $4 b. $8 c. $12 d. $20
2. Because pollution is a by-product of some production processes, GDP
a. tend to understate economic social welfare.
b. tend to overstate economic social welfare.
c. has been fully considered about pollution problems.
d. doesn't be related to this issue.
3. Suppose that Martine owns a lighthouse, and Lewis owns a nearby port.
Martin's lighthouse benefites only those ships that enter Lewis's port.
Which of the following statements is not correct?
a. Martin's lighthouse may be considered a private good.
b. Martin can reduce the free-rider problem by charging lewis a usage fee.
c. Martin can exclude Lewis's port from benefiting from the lighthouse by
simply turning the power off.
d. Martin's lighthouse wuold be considered a common resource.
4. Dick owns a dog whose barking annoys Dick's neighbor Jane. Suppose that the
benefit of owning the dog is worth $500 to Dick and that Jane bears a cost
of $700 from the barking. Assuming Dick has the legal right to keep the dog,
a possible private solution to this problem is that
a. Jane pays Dick $450 to give the dog to his parents who live on an
isolated farm.
b. Dick pays Jane $650 for her inconvenience.
c. Jane pays Dick $650 to give the dog to his parents Who live on an
isolated farm.
d. There is no private transaction that wuold improve this situation.
5. Assume that the government proposes a negative income tax that calculates
taxes owed by the formula, Taxes Owed = (a*Income) - b. A family with an
income of $40,000 pays $5,000 in taxes, and a family with an income of
$12,000 receices an income subsidy of $2,000. What's the value of a and b?
a. 25%, 5000 b. 25%, -5000 c. 20%, 3000 d. 20%, -3000
6. Suppose that Gaga divides her consumption between orange juice and bagels.
Both of them are not bads. Orange juice costs $1.00 per glass, and bagel
costs $2.00 each. In equilibrium, Gaga consumes both goods. Suppose Gaga
chooses a bundle in which the marginal utility of her last glass of orange
juice is 10, and the marginal utility of her last bagel is 25. Total cost
of this bundle matches her income, then
a. Gaga is in equilibrium.
b. Gaga can increase her utility by consuming more orange juice and fewer
bagels.
c. Gaga can increase her utility by consuming fewer of both commodities.
d. Gaga can increase her utility by consuming more bagels and less orange
juice.
Table 1
Price and Quantities
───────────────────────────────────────
Year Price of Quantity of Price of Quantity of
Sandwiches Sandwiches Magazines Magazines
───────────────────────────────────────
2006 $4.00 100 $2.00 180
2007 $5.00 120 $2.50 200
2008 $6.00 150 $3.50 200
───────────────────────────────────────
7.Refer to Table 1. Using the Gdp deflator to measure the average level of
prices and using 2006 as the base year, the economy's inflation rate is
a. 20% for 2007 and 12.5% for 2008. b. 20% for 2007 and 30% for 2008.
c. 25% for 2007 and 28% for 2008. d. 44% for 2007 and 45% for 2008.
8. Suppose the CPI was 108 in 1967, and suppose ine must spend $936 today to
obtain the same basket of goods and services that could be bought for $200
in 1967. Then today's CPI is
a. 410.10 b. 433.33 c. 468.00 d. 505.44
9. Restaurant City Salmon stock is selling at $40 per share, it has retained
earnings of $2.00 per share and dividends of $.50 per share. What is the
price-earnings ratio and what is the dividend yield?
a. 20, 1.25 percent b. 20, 6.25 percent
c. 16, 1.25 percent d. None of the above is correst.
10. Mixter Concrete Company is considering buying a new cement truck. The
owners and their accountants decide that this is the progitable thing to
do. Before they can buy the truck, the interest rate and price of trucks
change. In which case do these changes both make them less likely to buy
the truck?
a. both interest rates and price of trucks rise
b. both interest rates and the price of trucks fall
c. the interest rate rises and the price of trucks fall
d. the interest rate falls and the price of trucks rises
二、简答题 (Short Questions) (15 points)
请用经济学评论以下的观点。(请勿长篇大论。)
1. 因为我们只有一个地球,地球暖化的结果造成气候变迁,除了影响我们这一代的生态
,也使後代子酸的生存环境更加严峻。因此,我们从现在开始要不计一切代价来防止
地球暖化。(Hint:请用你已学过的现值法或终值法来分析)
2. 请简单介绍最新一期 The Economist 的文章 "Sex and the single blace woman".
3. What's the difference between firm-specific risk and market risk? Will
diversification eliminate one or both? Explain.
三、计算题 (Calculations) (45 points)
1. (10 points) 外部性
假设两家纸厂六月花(A)与可丽屋(B)在生产的过程中会互相污染,其利润函数分别为
πA = 120 QA - 0.25 QA^2 - 20 QB
πB = 240 QB - 0.25 QB^2 - 20 QA
a. (4 points) 在政府不干涉、两家不协商的情况下,请问各自决定的产量为何?
b. (4 points) 政府不干涉,但两家厂商决定共同创造联合利润的极大化,请问两家
的产量各为何? (Hint: 追求πA+πB的极大。)
c. (2 points) 若b.小题中的结果是社会最适量,但法律禁止联合垄断的行为,政府
拟对两家厂商分别课tA与tB的从量税,请问tA与tB该订为多少,可使厂商自行生产
的产量与b.小题相同?
2. (9 points) 消费组合
If Mary consumes products X and Y and spends $480 per time period. The unit
prices for X and Y are $5 and $10, respectively. Mary's utility is given
below:
U(X,Y)=(X^0.5)(Y^0.5)
a. (1 points) Please determine Mary's budget line.
b. (4 points) What quantities of X and Y that maximizes utility Mary will
consume?
c. (4 points If utility function becomesU(X,Y) = min(X,2Y), what's the
optimal quantities of X and Y?
3. (9 points) Unemployment Rate
The tavle below uses data of Taiwan through the year 2007-2009 procides by
the DGBAS, R.O.C. (行政院主计处). All values are in thousands. Fill in the
(a)-(i) entries in the table. Show your work!
┌────┬─────────┬──────┬─────
│Country │ Adult Population │ Labor Force│Employed
├────┼─────────┼──────┼─────
│ 2007 │ 18.392 │ (b) │ 10,294
├────┼─────────┼──────┼─────
│ 2008 │ (a) │ 10,853 │ (c)
├────┼─────────┼──────┼─────
│ 2009 │ 18,855 │ 10,917 │ (d)
├────┼─────────┼──────┼─────
─────┬─────┬─────────┐
Unemployed│Unemployed│Labor-Force │
│ Rate │Participation Rate│
─────┼─────┼─────────┤
419 │ (f) │ (h) │
─────┼─────┼─────────┤
450 │ (g) │ 58.28 │
─────┼─────┼─────────┤
(e) │ 5.85 │ (i) │
─────┴─────┴─────────┘
4. (14 points) 国民所得
Table 2-1 是我国2006-2009的主计处公布已当期价格计算的国民所得帐,Table 2-2
是以2006年价格为基期计算的国民所得帐,请依据两表回答以下问题:
a. (2 points) 请计算2009年以当其价格计算以及基期价格计算的GDP与GNP。
b. (6 points) 请以2006年为基期计算2007~2009年各年的GDP平减指数。
c. (6 points) 请计算2007~9年各年的GDP成长率及通货膨胀率。
5. (3 points) Consider three diffient closed economics with the following
national income statistics.Country A has taxes of $40 billion, transfers
of $20 billion, and government expenditures on goods and services of $30
billion. Country B has private sacings of $60 billion, and investment
expenditures of $50 billion. Country C has GDP of $300 billion, investment
of $20 billion. Please calculate the government saving (defict) amount for
three countries.
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