Microeconomic Analysis - Exercises & Applications 3e : For Microeconomic Analysis, Third Edition

Introduction vi The Elasticity of Substitution 1(3) The Limiting Nature of the Cobb-Douglas Technology 4(7) Per Capita Production Functions 11(13) The Cost and Timing of Land Development 24(9) Constant Elasticity of Substitution Production Functions with Two or More Inputs 33(14) Approximation Results for CES Production Functions 47(8) Approximating Elasticities of Substitution with the Price Elasticity of Derived Demand 55(3) Optimal Commodity Taxes 58(10) Selected Applications of the Expenditure Function 68(9) Negative Income Taxation and the Labor-Leisure Decision 77(9) Separable Utility and Conditional Demand 86(10) Random Income Taxation 96(20) Risk Aversion with Many Commodities 116(9) Risk Aversion and Product Liability 125(12) Planning, Bonus Structures, and Truthful Information 137(9) Optimal Commodity Taxation from Consumer Surplus 146(8) Consumer Surplus with Multiple Goods 154(10) Estimating Two Factor, Constant Elasticity of Substitution Production Functions 164(4) Estimating Constant Elasticity of Substitution Production Functions with More than Two Factors 168(7) Some Properties of the Translog Cost Function 175(13) Flexible Functional Representations of Production Technologies and Consumer Preferences 188(9) Some Implications of the Independence of Price and Income on the Structure of Demand 197(8) On the Structure of Consumer Demand 205(9) Monopoly, Uncertainty, and the International Flow of Goods 214(8) Excess Capacity as a Barrier to Entry 222(8) A Locational Theory of Monopolistic Competition 230(9) Product Diversity under Monopolistic Competition 239(9) Resource Stock Externalities 248(8) The Edgeworth Geometry of General Equilibrium 256(16) The Rybczynski and Stolper-Samuelson Theorems 272(11) The Optimal Tariff in General Equilibrium 283(9) Incidence of the Corporate Profits Tax 292(12) Uniqueness of Equilibria with Production 304(15) Uncertainty and Tax Incidence in General Equilibrium 319(16) Resource Stock Externalities in General Equilibrium 335(13) Investment Timing and the Effect of a Tax Credit 348(17) Pure Public Goods with Many Private Goods 365(9) Voting and the Provision of Local Public Goods 374(11) The Optimal Return to Government Investment 385(11) Peak Load Pricing and the Structure of Demand Uncertainty 396(10) The Asymmetry of Taxes and Subsidies 406(13) Monopoly and the Extraction of an Exhaustible Resource 419(12) Alternative Mechanisms for Controlling Pollution 431(8) Regulating the Monopolistic Polluter 439(9) The Incidence of Pollution Control 448(15) Efficient Markets and Transactions Costs 463(10) Plea Bargaining Arrangements as Social Insurance 473(10) Education as an Economic Signal 483(11) Multiple Price Equilibria 494(11) The Value of Information 505