Question
By the Hosios efficiency condition, a buyer’s surplus share is set equal to the elasticity of a function used in this theory. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this theory. Their development of a model in this theory that accounts for lasting effects of shocks won Dale Mortensen and Christopher Pissarides the 2010 Nobel Prize in Economics.
ANSWER: search and matching theory [prompt on search theory or matching theory] (The function in the lead-in is the matching function.)
[10e] Common matching functions use the number of vacancies and the number of people with this trait as inputs. People who temporarily have this trait are classified as “frictional.”
ANSWER: unemployed [or jobless; or not working; accept word forms; accept frictional unemployment]
[10m] Due to their form, matching functions will display this property in an ideal labor market. Cobb-Douglas functions display this property if the sum of their exponents is equal to 1.
ANSWER: constant returns to scale [or CRS; prompt on returns to scale]
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Summary
| 2024 ARGOS @ Brandeis | 03/22/2025 | Y | 3 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2024 ARGOS @ Chicago | 11/23/2024 | Y | 6 | 16.67 | 100% | 33% | 33% |
| 2024 ARGOS @ Christ's College | 12/14/2024 | Y | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 33% | 33% |
| 2024 ARGOS @ Columbia | 11/23/2024 | Y | 3 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2024 ARGOS @ McMaster | 11/17/2024 | Y | 5 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2024 ARGOS @ Stanford | 02/22/2025 | Y | 3 | 13.33 | 100% | 33% | 0% |
| 2024 ARGOS Online | 03/22/2025 | Y | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 67% | 0% |
Data
| Banned from ARGOS | Pahkin' the Ahgo | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| |madam| | Import Pandas | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| "Powers a question on Stancyzk" that's a clown question bro | Hu up Jinning they Tao | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| BHSU ReFantazio | hawk two of | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| The Love Song of J Alfred PrufRock and Roll All Nite (and Party Every Day) | Clown Senpais | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Music to Help You Stop Smoking | Clown Squad | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Who is the Colleen Hoover of the Zulus? | Northeast by Northwestern | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Notre Dame | BHSU Rebirth | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| WashU | That Feeling When Knee Surgery Is in Five Days | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Defying Suavity | Grzegorz Brzęczyszczykiewicz | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Simple Vibes | Cien Años de Quizboledad | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Limp Franceskit | Cambridge | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Walston et. al. | 12 Litres of Green Tea | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Cope is the thing with feathers | NJ TRANSit (and anwen | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| just one more half-dot bro | jeff mcneil #1 morningside heights fan club | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Simpson Agonistes: The Crisis of Donut | I'd prefer to have the team name be Christensen et al. than anything that Erik cooks up | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| You cannot go to Aarhus to see his peat-brown head / With eyes like ripening fruit | Moderator Can't Neg me While in Alpha | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Communism is Soviet power plus the yassification of the whole country | She Dicer On My Argonaute Till I RNA Interfere | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Tensei Shitara Flashcard Data Ken | as rational as the square root of two power bottoms | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Ryan Wesley Routh's 10 000 NATO-trained Afghan Quizbowlers | The Only Existing Manuscript from A Clockwork Orange | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| A is for Amy Robsart who fell down the stairs | number of tang poems = 75 times number of lines in a shi = 100 times number of lines in a haiku | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Berkeley | Cry of the Common Loon | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Stanford+ | Where are the ACF Nationals recordings? | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Aw we're so sorry to hear that maman died today, she gets five big booms | I wish it were possible to freeze time so I would never have to watch you retire | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| CLEVELAND, THIS IS FOR YOU! | UBC | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| throw away your cards, rally in the streets | Thompson et al. | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |