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Please answer all the three questions. Please do not reject it.

Transcribed Image Text:The following information is the starting point for Q16 – 20. Consider an exchange economy
with two agents, 1 and 2, and two goods, X and Y. Agent l's endowment is (0,10) and
agent 2 's endowment is (11,0) . Agent 1 strictly prefers bundle (a, b) to bundle (c, d) if,
either a > c, or a = c and b > d. Agent 2 strictly prefers bundle (a, b) to bundle (c, d) if
min{a, b} > min{c, d}. For both agents, we say that bundle (a, b) is indifferent to bundle
(c, d) if, neither (a, b), nor (c, d), is strictly preferred to the other.
16. This exchange economy has
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A. one competitive equilibrium allocation
B. two competitive equilibrium allocations
C. an infinite number of competitive equilibrium allocations
D. no competitive equilibrium allocations

Transcribed Image Text:17. Which of the following changes makes (pr, Py) = (1,0) a competitive equilibrium price
vector?
A. agent 2's endowment changes to (9,0)
B. agent 2's endowment changes to (10,0)
C. agent l's endowment changes to (0, 12)
D. none of the above
18. Suppose only agent 2's preferences are changed. The changed preferences of agent 2's
become identical to those of agent 1. Then,
A. there is no equilibrium price ratio
B. both of the following are true
C. Pa/Py = 0 is an equilibrium price ratio
D. Py/Pa = 0 is an equilibrium price ratio
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