c) What is the cost of the consumer's original 2018 bundle at the new 2019 prices? How much additional income would this consumer need in order to afford the original bundle? d) Using your answer to (c), calculate the rate of inflation using the con- sumer price index based on the 2018 bundle (more generally called a Laspeyres price index). (e) Suppose the consumer's income is increased by the rate you found in (d), which also corresponds to the amount of income you found in (c). On a graph measuring the quantity of housing on the horizontal axis and quantity of food on the vertical axis, depict the original budget constraint and the new budget constraint after income is compensated according to (c). Include the indifference curve at the point (5,15). Label this new budget constraint BC019, where C is for "compensateď".

c) What is the cost of the consumer's original 2018 bundle at the new 2019 prices? How much additional income would this consumer need in order to afford the original bundle? d) Using your answer to (c), calculate the rate of inflation using the con- sumer price index based on the 2018 bundle (more generally called a Laspeyres price index). (e) Suppose the consumer's income is increased by the rate you found in (d), which also corresponds to the amount of income you found in (c). On a graph measuring the quantity of housing on the horizontal axis and quantity of food on the vertical axis, depict the original budget constraint and the new budget constraint after income is compensated according to (c). Include the indifference curve at the point (5,15). Label this new budget constraint BC019, where C is for "compensateď".

Managerial Economics: A Problem Solving Approach

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