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Competitive Strategy. Bob Ice owns and operates Bob's Music Center, Ltd., a small firm that offers music lessons in Huntsville, Alabama. Given the large number of competitors and the lack of entry b
For the next three questions, suppose a per-unit excise tax of $90 per guitar is levied on the consumers. What price will consumers pay after the tax is levied What proportion of the tax w
Suppose you are hired by the Martin guitar company as an economic consultant. You estimate the demand for Martin guitars to be Q = 9,000 - 6P.a) Suppose the supply of Martin Guitars is given by Q =
Suppose you are hired as a traffic consultant to improve traffic patterns among commuters. How should these 5000 cars be allocated over the two routes in order to minimize the total amount of time c
Widgets are supplied by a perfectly competitive market. The marginal internal cost function is given MCI(Q) = (1/2)Q. Unfortunately, production of widgets also produces pollution, which has a margin
Sales Forecast Modeling. The change in the quantity of product A demanded in any given week is inversely proportional to the change in sales of product B in the previous week. That is, if sales of B
Calculate the industry price necessary to induce short-run firm supply of 5,000, 10,000, and 15,000 tons of sweet corn. Assume that MC > AVC at every point along the firm's marginal cost curve an
Perry and his friend Doug attended the baseball game in 2004 where Duncan Jones hit 75 home runs, breaking the 2000 record of Mark McGuire. When Duncan hit his record-breaking home run, the ball wen
For each event, you must specify how it effects either demand, quantity demanded, supply, or quantity demanded. It is also important to demonstrate how the change will affect the market demand or su
Suppose that the marginal product of the last worker employed by the Delicious Ice Cream Company is 300 units of output per day and the daily wage that the firm must pay is $50, while the marginal p
Alternatively, he estimated that he could sell an extra 1,200 hamburgers per day by keeping the restaurant open for two more hours per day at a cost of $50 per hour. Which of these two alternative w
Alpha Corporation needs to raise $10 million for plant modernization. Alpha's target capital structure calls for a debt ratio of 0.4, meaning that the project will be financed through $6 million of
An accountant for a car rental company was recently asked to report the firm's costs of producing various levels of output. The accountant knows that the most recent estimate available of the firm's
The manager of a national retailing outlet recently hired an economist to estimate the firm's production function. Based on the economist's report, the manager now knows that the firm's production f
The manager of a meat-packing plant can use either butchers (labor) or meat saws (capital) to prepare packages of sirloin steak. Based on estimates provided by an efficiency expert, the firm's produ
The demand function for VCRs has been estimated to be Q_v=134-1.07P_t+46P_m-2.1P_v-5M , where Q_v is the quantity of VCRs, P_t is the price of a videocassette, P_m is the price of a movie, P_v is t
The government finances its purchases through lump-sum taxes on consumers, where T denotes total taxes, and the government budget is balanced each period, so that G = T.
Suppose the real GDP of a country increased from 2,000 billion to 2,100 billion in one year. In the same year, population growth rate was 3%. How much was the growth rate of real GDP per capita in t
calculate the opportunity cost for chris, andrew and stuart if they have to opt between travelling by bus, at 3 hours for $20 OR PLANE FOR $100 IN 30 MINUTES, onsidering that each earn $12, $5 and $
Suppose that a monopolistically competitive firm must build a production facility in order to produce a product. The fixed cost of this facility is FC = $24. Also, the firm has constant margin
Assume an economy with 1000 consumers. Each consumer has income in the current period of 50 units and future income of 60 units and pays a lump-sum tax of 10 in the current period and 20 units in th
Knappland is at Y = Yn , ue = uen , and P = Pe. President Ewe is concerned about the upcoming election. He pushes tax cuts through the legislature. a. Use the AS-AD to illustrate the effects of the
For both sets of calculations, compare the firm's output price and the calculated average variable cost and average total cost. Should the firm shutdown immediately when the total fixed cost equals