Solution: A typical consumer behaved in the following manner with respect to purchases of butter over the past eight years: Year Price of butter $/pound


Question: A typical consumer behaved in the following manner with respect to purchases of butter over the past eight years:

Year Price of butter
$/pound
Butter Demand Real Income
$
Price of
Margarine
$/pound
1 0.95 200 11000 0.65
2 1.1 180 11000 0.65
3 1.1 190 11500 0.65
4 1.1 200 11500 0.9
5 1.15 170 11500 0.9
6 0.99 190 11500 0.9
7 0.99 175 10500 0.9
8 0.99 150 10500 0.65

Compute all meaningful price, income, and cross elasticity coefficients. (Remember that the effects of other factors need to be held constant when computing any one of these coefficients.)

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