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A health reform plan recommends introducing a tax of $20 per day on hospital stays. How this new tax will affect hospital supply curve? Illustrate a diagram to illustrate your answer.
Discuss how do we measure the utility? Are interpersonal (i.e. between people) comparisons valid? Why or why not? Original answers only.
A company buys a machine for $12,000, which it agrees to pay for in five equal annual payments, at an annual interest rate of 4%, beginning one year after the date of purchase.
The Crockett Land Winery must replace its present grape-pressing equipment. The 2 alternatives are the Stomp-Master and the Quik-Skwish. The annual operating costs increase by 15% each year as the m
Discuss why marginal cost curves slope downward as firms increase their output from "0"; but, eventually, as output continues to expand, marginal cost curves slope upward and ultimately become vert
The owner of a rental car company is trying to choose how many cars to buy. He has determined that the annual value of marginal product (P x MPK) of an additional car is approximated by: PxMPK = 500
Calculate the quantity supplied, the quantity demanded, and the magnitude of the surplus if a price floor of $36 is imposed in this market. Quantity demanded: Quantity supplied: Surplus:
A "street talk" feature on a radio station sought tourist reaction to higher gasoline prices. Gasoline prices typically rise during the summer, a time of heavy tourist traffic. Here was one response
Illustrate a situation where the consumer price increases by exactly the amount of a specific excise tax paid by the producer by using a graph of supply and demand under perfect competition.
Employees are equally skilled, and all are able to either operate a register (checkers) or bag groceries (baggers). The Good'n'Fresh Grocery Store has 2 checkout lanes and 4 employees.
Richland's real GDP per person is $10,000, and Poor land's real GDP per person is $5,000. However, Richland's real GDP per person is growing at 1 percent per year, and Poor land's is growing at 3 pe
Briefly explain what would happen to the total revenue of a tobacco manufacturer for both a small increase and a small decrease in the price of cigarettes.
If a certain upgrade helps reduce operating costs by $750 per hour of use, and the upgraded equipment will be used on average 8 hours per day.
Arian is about to borrow $2350 from his uncle. He has an option to repay the loan at the end of year five with 10.75% simple interest per year or with five percent interest per year, compoun
Assume you win a lottery, and your after-tax gain is $40,000 per year until you retire. As a result, you decide to work part time at 32 hours per week in your old job instead of the usual 40 hours p
Isabel's preferences for leisure L and consumption C can be expressed as U(C, L) = (C - 200) x (L - 80), implying that her marginal utility of leisure is (C - 200) and her marginal utility of consum
Holding all other factors constant, could rising wage rates of women explain both phenomena? Explain. For several decades the labor force participation rate of women increased steadily but
Discuss how would the increasing availability of substitutes for in-home child care likely affect women's decision as to whether or not to work?
Longhorn Fabricators Inc. plans to expand its metals-forming facility over the next five years. The company will add 20,000 square feet to its 100,000 -square-foot plant as it adds robotic welding u
A Japanese carmaker plans to expand its production in the U.S. At an interest rate of 8% per year the company borrowed $170 million for this expansion.
The Acme Corporation plans to expand its relationship with a soft drink manufacturer to build the Acme ready-to-drink coffee beverages available in Asia.
Suppose that you were ready to buy a custom tailored dress and you are prepared to pay up to $200 for it. Also assume that the tailor is prepared to sell that item of clothing for as little as $100.
Explain what Smith meant by the "invisible hand." determine the mechanism by which selfish interests are made compatible with-indeed, made the agent for-successful social provisioning?
What sorts of businesses would be hit by your reduced spending? Would they, in turn, curtail their expenditures? If your income (or your parents') were suddenly reduced to half, by how much would yo
Evaluate the situations of a farmer selling his wheat crop and an auto company executive selling his car "crop." Determine the mayor forces that bear on each, when it comes to pricing output?