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![4) Suppose you are a hard-working software engineer that works 2000 hours a year, which you
allocate between meetings (m), learning activities (1) and working effort (e) doing actual coding
tasks (m +1+e= 2000).
a. Write down your personal production function f(m, 1, e). Briefly describe how your output
depends on the three activities.
b.
Does your production function exhibit increasing, decreasing or constant returns to scale (at
all or some output levels)? Explain.
c. Suppose a new technology doubles the productivity of your coding hours but requires you to
spend X hours to adopt the technology (reducing your available work hours to 2000-X).
What is the maximum X that makes adopting the technology worthwhile in the first year?](/v2/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcontent.bartleby.com%2Fqna-images%2Fquestion%2Fcc90cb3e-fff1-4390-ba90-017272465315%2F9120c923-e166-4663-925b-b886c8679359%2Fjvwln7_processed.png&w=3840&q=75)
Transcribed Image Text:4) Suppose you are a hard-working software engineer that works 2000 hours a year, which you
allocate between meetings (m), learning activities (1) and working effort (e) doing actual coding
tasks (m +1+e= 2000).
a. Write down your personal production function f(m, 1, e). Briefly describe how your output
depends on the three activities.
b.
Does your production function exhibit increasing, decreasing or constant returns to scale (at
all or some output levels)? Explain.
c. Suppose a new technology doubles the productivity of your coding hours but requires you to
spend X hours to adopt the technology (reducing your available work hours to 2000-X).
What is the maximum X that makes adopting the technology worthwhile in the first year?
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