Private solutions to correct for externalities Consider the following scenario: Suppose that a cafe enjoys a large increase in customers whenever the jazz club next door features a band playing appealing music, because it can be easily heard from the cafe. The jazz club owner decides to purchase the cafe so that he can internalize this positive externality. Which of the following types of private solutions to the externality of appealing music has occurred in this case? It's important to note that sometimes private solutions to externalities do communications barriers or social customs are important enough relative to the potential gains involved that

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3. saving two consumers, larry and jeff, have utility functions defined over the two periods of their lives: middle age (period zero) and retirement (period 1). they have the same income in period 0 of m dollars and they will not earn income in period 1. the interest rate they face is r. larry’s and jeff’s utility functions are as follow. = 0.5 + 0.5 and = 0.5 + 0.5 for each person is between zero and one and represents each consumer’s temporal discount econ 340: intermediate microeconomics. ben van kammen: purdue university. rate. a. write the budget constraint that applies to both jeff and larry in terms of consumption in each period and ), interest rate, and m. b. what is larry’s and what is jeff’s marginal rate of intertemporal substitution? c. what is the slope of the budget constraint? d. write each consumer’s condition for lifetime utility maximization. e. re-arrange the conditions from part (d) to solve for the ratio, . f. if > which consumer will save more of his middle age income? g. if > 1 1+ , in which period will larry consume more: = 0 or = 1?