a) Show that the isoquant curves generated by this production function are negatively sloped. Briefly, up to 50 words, give economic interpretations. b) Suppose that A = 1, a = 1/2,ß = 1/2 . Are isoquant curves concave up or down?
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- Consider the following production function: f (A, B) = gamma multiply A^alpha multiply B^Beta. where A and B are the inputs and alpha, Beta, gamma are in the set (0,1). Let wA and wB the price of the two inputs. Assume wA, wB > 0. Is the production function separable?Does the production function exhibit constant returns of scale?Compute the cost function and the conditional input demand function.How do these three functions react to a change in wA? Suppose the price of both inputs double, what happens to the conditional input demand function? And to the cost function? Suppose the desired level of output double, what happens to the conditional input demand function? And to the cost function?…Suppose the production function is given by Q = 5K+2L. What is the marginal product of capital when 5 units of capital and 10 units of labor are employed?1a) Define an isoquant and then explain what decreasing returns of scale implies. What happens to the isoquants on an isoquant map in such an instance? b) In general, changes in price and quantity depend on the amount by which the demand and supply curves shift, in which direction they shift and the shape of each curve. With this statement in mind, illustrate by drawing a single graph the new price and quantity at a new equilibrium when both curves shift to the right, but the shift in the demand curve is larger than the shift in the supply curve.
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