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Chapter 2Budget Constraint
Required reading: whole chapterExercises:1.Review Questions #1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 on p.32.
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Consumption Choice Sets
A consumption choice set is the collection of all consumption choices available to the consumer.
What constrains consumption choice?
– Budgetary, time and other resource limitations.
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Budget Constraints
A consumption bundle containing x1 units of commodity 1, x2 units of commodity 2 and so on up to xn units of commodity n is denoted by the vector (x1, x2, … , xn).
Commodity prices are p1, p2, … , pn.
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Budget Constraints
Q: When is a consumption bundle (x1, … , xn) affordable at given prices p1, … , pn?
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Budget Constraints
Q: When is a bundle (x1, … , xn) affordable at prices p1, … , pn?
A: When p1x1 + … + pnxn mwhere m is the consumer’s (disposable) income.
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Budget Constraints
The bundles that are only just affordable form the consumer’s budget constraint. This is the set
{ (x1,…,xn) | x1 0, …, xn and p1x1 + … + pnxn m }.
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Budget Constraints
The consumer’s budget set is the set of all affordable bundles;B(p1, … , pn, m) ={ (x1, … , xn) | x1 0, … , xn 0 and p1x1 + … + pnxn m }
The budget constraint is the upper boundary of the budget set.
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Budget Set and Constraint for Two Commoditiesx2
x1
Budget constraint isp1x1 + p2x2 = m.
m /p1
m /p2
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Budget Set and Constraint for Two Commoditiesx2
x1
Budget constraint isp1x1 + p2x2 = m.
m /p2
m /p1
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Budget Set and Constraint for Two Commoditiesx2
x1
Budget constraint isp1x1 + p2x2 = m.
m /p1
Just affordable
m /p2
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Budget Set and Constraint for Two Commoditiesx2
x1
Budget constraint isp1x1 + p2x2 = m.
m /p1
Just affordable
Not affordable
m /p2
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Budget Set and Constraint for Two Commoditiesx2
x1
Budget constraint isp1x1 + p2x2 = m.
m /p1
Affordable
Just affordable
Not affordable
m /p2
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Budget Set and Constraint for Two Commoditiesx2
x1
Budget constraint isp1x1 + p2x2 = m.
m /p1
BudgetSet
the collection of all affordable bundles.
m /p2
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Budget Set and Constraint for Two Commoditiesx2
x1
p1x1 + p2x2 = m is x2 = -(p1/p2)x1 + m/p2.
so slope is -p1/p2.
m /p1
BudgetSet
m /p2
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Budget Constraints For n = 2 and x1 on the horizontal axis,
the constraint’s slope is -p1/p2. What does it mean?
Increasing x1 by 1 must reduce x2 by p1/p2.
xpp
xmp2
1
21
2
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Budget Constraintsx2
x1
Slope is -p1/p2
+1
-p1/p2
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Budget Constraintsx2
x1
+1
-p1/p2
Opp. cost of an extra unit of commodity 1 is p1/p2 units foregone of commodity 2.
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Budget Constraintsx2
x1
Opp. cost of an extra unit of commodity 1 is p1/p2 units foregone of commodity 2. And the opp. cost of an extra unit of commodity 2 is p2/p1 units foregone of commodity 1.
-p2/p1
+1
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Budget Sets & Constraints; Income and Price Changes
The budget constraint and budget set depend upon prices and income. What happens as prices or income change?
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How do the budget set and budget constraint change as income m
increases?
Originalbudget set
x2
x1
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Higher income gives more choice
Originalbudget set
New affordable consumptionchoices
x2
x1
Original andnew budgetconstraints areparallel (sameslope).
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How do the budget set and budget constraint change as income m
decreases?
Originalbudget set
x2
x1
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How do the budget set and budget constraint change as income m
decreases?x2
x1
New, smallerbudget set
Consumption bundlesthat are no longeraffordable.Old and new
constraintsare parallel.
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Budget Constraints - Income Changes
Increases in income m shift the constraint outward in a parallel manner, thereby enlarging the budget set and improving choice.
Decreases in income m shift the constraint inward in a parallel manner, thereby shrinking the budget set and reducing choice.
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Budget Constraints - Income Changes
No original choice is lost and new choices are added when income increases, so higher income cannot make a consumer worse off.
An income decrease may (typically will) make the consumer worse off.
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Budget Constraints - Price Changes
What happens if just one price decreases?
Suppose p1 decreases.
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How do the budget set and budget constraint change as p1 decreases
from p1’ to p1”?
Originalbudget set
x2
x1
m/p2
m/p1’ m/p1”
-p1’/p2
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How do the budget set and budget constraint change as p1 decreases
from p1’ to p1”?
Originalbudget set
x2
x1
m/p2
m/p1’ m/p1”
New affordable choices
-p1’/p2
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How do the budget set and budget constraint change as p1 decreases
from p1’ to p1”?
Originalbudget set
x2
x1
m/p2
m/p1’ m/p1”
New affordable choices
Budget constraint pivots; slope flattens from -p1’/p2 to -p1”/p2
-p1’/p2
-p1”/p2
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Budget Constraints - Price Changes
Reducing the price of one commodity pivots the constraint outward. No old choice is lost and new choices are added, so reducing one price cannot make the consumer worse off.
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Budget Constraints - Price Changes
Similarly, increasing one price pivots the constraint inwards, reduces choice and may (typically will) make the consumer worse off.
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Uniform Ad Valorem Sales Taxes
An ad valorem sales tax levied at a rate of 5% increases all prices by 5%, from p to (1+005)p = 105p.
An ad valorem sales tax levied at a rate of t increases all prices by tp from p to (1+t)p.
A uniform sales tax is applied uniformly to all commodities.
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Uniform Ad Valorem Sales Taxes
A uniform sales tax levied at rate t changes the constraint from p1x1 + p2x2 = mto (1+t)p1x1 + (1+t)p2x2 = mi.e. p1x1 + p2x2 = m/(1+t).
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Uniform Ad Valorem Sales Taxesx2
x1
mp2
mp1
p1x1 + p2x2 = m
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Uniform Ad Valorem Sales Taxesx2
x1
mp2
mp1
p1x1 + p2x2 = m
p1x1 + p2x2 = m/(1+t)
mt p( )1 1
mt p( )1 2
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Uniform Ad Valorem Sales Taxesx2
x1
mt p( )1 2
mp2
mt p( )1 1
mp1
Equivalent income lossis
mm
tt
tm
1 1
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Uniform Ad Valorem Sales Taxesx2
x1
mt p( )1 2
mp2
mt p( )1 1
mp1
A uniform ad valoremsales tax levied at rate tis equivalent to an incometax levied at rate t
t1.
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The Food Stamp Program
Food stamps are coupons that can be legally exchanged only for food.
How does a commodity-specific gift such as a food stamp alter a family’s budget constraint?
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The Food Stamp Program
Suppose m = $100, pF = $1 and the price of “other goods” is pG = $1.
The budget constraint is then F + G =100.
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The Food Stamp ProgramG
F100
100
F + G = 100: before stamps.
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The Food Stamp ProgramG
F100
100
F + G = 100: before stamps.
Budget set after 40 foodstamps issued.
140
The family’s budgetset is enlarged.
40
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The Food Stamp Program
What if food stamps can be traded on a black market for $0.50 each?
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The Food Stamp ProgramG
F100
100
F + G = 100: before stamps.
Budget constraint after 40 food stamps issued.
140
120
Budget constraint with black market trading.
40
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The Food Stamp ProgramG
F100
100
F + G = 100: before stamps.
Budget constraint after 40 food stamps issued.
140
120
Black market trading makes the budget set larger again.
40
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Budget Constraints - Relative Prices
“Numeraire” means “unit of account”.
Suppose prices and income are measured in dollars. Say p1=$2, p2=$3, m = $12. Then the constraint is 2x1 + 3x2 = 12.
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Budget Constraints - Relative Prices
If prices and income are measured in cents, then p1=200, p2=300, m=1200 and the constraint is 200x1 + 300x2 = 1200,the same as 2x1 + 3x2 = 12.
Changing the numeraire changes neither the budget constraint nor the budget set.
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Budget Constraints - Relative Prices
The constraint for p1=2, p2=3, m=12 2x1 + 3x2 = 12 is also 1.x1 + (3/2)x2 = 6,the constraint for p1=1, p2=3/2, m=6. Setting p1=1 makes commodity 1 the numeraire and defines all prices relative to p1; e.g. 3/2 is the price of commodity 2 relative to the price of commodity 1.
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Budget Constraints - Relative Prices
Any commodity can be chosen as the numeraire without changing the budget set or the budget constraint.
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Shapes of Budget Constraints
Q: What makes a budget constraint a straight line?
A: A straight line has a constant slope and the constraint is p1x1 + … + pnxn = mso if prices are constants then a constraint is a straight line.
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Shapes of Budget Constraints
But what if prices are not constants? E.g. bulk buying discounts, or price
penalties for buying “too much”. Then constraints will be curved.
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Shapes of Budget Constraints - Quantity Discounts
Suppose p2 is constant at $1 but that p1=$2 for 0 x1 20 and p1=$1 for x1>20. Then the constraint’s slope is - 2, for 0 x1 20-p1/p2 = - 1, for x1 > 20and the constraint is
{
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Shapes of Budget Constraints with a Quantity Discount
m = $100
50
100
20
Slope = - 2 / 1 = - 2 (p1=2, p2=1)
Slope = - 1/ 1 = - 1 (p1=1, p2=1)
80
x2
x1
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Shapes of Budget Constraints with a Quantity Discount
m = $100
50
100
20
Slope = - 2 / 1 = - 2 (p1=2, p2=1)
Slope = - 1/ 1 = - 1 (p1=1, p2=1)
80
x2
x1
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Shapes of Budget Constraints with a Quantity Discount
m = $100
50
100
20 80
x2
x1
Budget Set
Budget Constraint
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Shapes of Budget Constraints with a Quantity Penalty
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Budget Set
Budget Constraint
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Shapes of Budget Constraints - One Price Negative
Commodity 1 is stinky garbage. You are paid $2 per unit to accept it; i.e. p1 = - $2. p2 = $1. Income, other than from accepting commodity 1, is m = $10.
Then the constraint is - 2x1 + x2 = 10 or x2 = 2x1 + 10.
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Shapes of Budget Constraints - One Price Negative
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Budget constraint’s slope is-p1/p2 = -(-2)/1 = +2
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x2 = 2x1 + 10
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Shapes of Budget Constraints - One Price Negative
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Budget set is all bundles for which x1 0,x2 0 andx2 2x1 + 10.
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More General Choice Sets
Choices are usually constrained by more than a budget; e.g. time constraints and other resources constraints.
A bundle is available only if it meets every constraint.
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More General Choice Sets
Food
Other Stuff
10
At least 10 units of foodmust be eaten to survive
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Food
Other Stuff
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Budget Set
Choice is also budgetChoice is also budgetconstrained.constrained.
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More General Choice Sets
Food
Other Stuff
10
Choice is further restricted by a time constraint.
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More General Choice Sets
So what is the choice set?So what is the choice set?
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More General Choice Sets
Food
Other Stuff
10
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Other Stuff
10
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More General Choice Sets
Food
Other Stuff
10
The choice set is theintersection of all ofthe constraint sets.