Assignment 1 Questions: Week 4, 5 & 6
Q1: Illustrate an example of your choice and discuss consumer surplus, producer surplus, Total surplus, and deadweight loss with the help of the graphs.[2.5 Marks]
Q2: Calculate the consumer surplus, producer surplus, and total surplus in a market of airplane tickets if the Equilibrium price per ticket is SAR 160, the equilibrium Quantity is 80 tickets, the upper intercept of the demand curve on the y-axis is SAR 400 and lower intercept of the supply curve on the y-axis is zero. What will be the dead weight loss if the government imposes a tax of SAR 80 per ticket and the buyer and sellers share the tax of 50 percent each? [2.5 Marks]
Q3: What do you mean by import tariff and import quota? Take an example and discuss the difference between tariffs and quotas with the help of graphs. [2.5 Marks]
Q4: Provide the equation to calculate the GDP of a nation. Explain all four factors that contribute to the GDP calculation in detail. [2.5 Marks]