TAILIEUCHUNG - Lecture Business economics - Lecture 7: The costs of production - I

In this chapter you will examine how taxes reduce consumer and producer surplus, learn the meaning and causes of the deadweight loss of a tax, consider why some taxes have larger deadweight losses than others, examine how tax revenue and deadweight loss vary with the size of a tax. | Review of the previous lecture The consumer optimizes by choosing the point on his budget constraint that lies on the highest indifference curve. When the price of a good falls, the impact on the consumer’s choices can be broken down into an income effect and a substitution effect. The income effect is the change in consumption that arises because a lower price makes the consumer better off. The income effect is reflected by the movement from a lower to a higher indifference curve. Review of the previous lecture The substitution effect is the change in consumption that arises because a price change encourages greater consumption of the good that has become relatively cheaper. The substitution effect is reflected by a movement along an indifference curve to a point with a different slope. The theory of consumer choice can explain: Why demand curves can potentially slope upward. How wages affect labor supply. How interest rates affect household saving. Lecture 7 The Costs of Production-

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• Business economics
• Lecture Business economics
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