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(a If po increases, what happens to the demand and supply of public transportation (shifts left/shifts right/doesn’t change) What happens to the equilibrium quantity and price for public transportation? (increase/decrease)

 

(b)At a given price p, as oil becomes more expensive (po increases), does the (own) price elasticity of demand for public transportation increase / decrease / stay the same?

 

(c) Calculate the cross-price elasticity of public transportation demand with respect to the oil price po, at the point p = 1 and po = 2. Are the two goods (public transportation and oil) substitutes or complements, or unrelated?

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The demand for public transportation is given by Qº
= " where p is the price of public
transportation and po is the price of oil. On the other hand, the price of oil also affects the supply of public
transportation, given by QS
(po)3
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Transcribed Image Text:PROBLEM (1) The demand for public transportation is given by Qº = " where p is the price of public transportation and po is the price of oil. On the other hand, the price of oil also affects the supply of public transportation, given by QS (po)3
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