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A company operates plants in both the unites states(where capital is relatively cheap and labor relatively expensive) and mexico(where labor is relatively cheap and capital is relatively expensive).
4. Sam consumes green eggs and ham. Ham and green eggs are both normal goods.
What discount rate is most appropriate for net present value calculations of large-scale projects? Of small projects? Of the quantity of inventories to hold?
How gold prices have spiked partially due to the fact that the Federal Reserve would consider buying more Treasury Bonds to fuel the economy. How would this affect the price of gold?
Suppose that the State Bank announces an increase in the money supply. As a result, people start to expect higher prices. What will happen to the short-run aggregate supply curve?
Distinguish between the Federal funds rate and the prime interest rate. Why is one higher than the other? Why do changes in the two rates closely track one another?
What are the positive consequences of preventing the offshoring of U.S service sector jobs,what are the negative consequences? Do these consequences change with the passege of time?
Due to the presence of dimishing returns to capital, doubling the amount of physical capital available for one worker to use will:
At what point will a firm shut-down? Support your answer with a graph. Explain, why will the firm continue to operate even when its profits are negative?
In benchmarking sales representatives against one another, what problems arise from continuing to reassign the above-average trade representatives to previously unproductive sales territories?
If Apple iPod only played iTunes, and iTunes only could be heard on the Apple iPod, could Apple price the technologically integrated bundle any way they wanted? If other electronic music can play on a
How can you justify the existence of government-granted monopolies for public utilities such as natural gas distribution and electricity in the light of traditional economic argument that the more com
Assume that American rice sells for $100 per bushel Japanese rice sells for 1600 yen per bushel and the nominal exhange rate is 80 yen per dollar
It is often suggested that the Federal Reserve try to achieve zero inflation. If we assume that velocity is constant does this zero-inflation goal require that the rate of money growyh equal zero? If
Explain one harm associated with unexpected inflation that is not associated with expected inflation. Then explain one harm associated with both expected and unexpected inflation.
What is the difference between a cost-benefit analysis and a cost-effectiveness analysis? Give an example of a situation in which a cost-benefit analysis would be appropriate and an example of a situa
If a new home can be constructed for $150,000, what is the opportunity cost of federal defense spending, measures in terms of private housing? (assume a defense budget of $600 billion)?
Please explain what is meant by a budget deficit and what is the national debt. While many think these terms are synonymous, they are very different, please explain. What are the approximate values of
The total costs of a firm under perfect competition is given by the equation TC = 5,000 + 4Q + 2Q^2 and the market price is $100 per unit.
The cost function for Lilac Ltd.is given by TC = 500 + Q^2. It sells output in a perfectly competitive market and other firms in the industry sell at a price of $100.
Determine the profit at the revenue maximizing level and the profit maximizing level.
Shockers Corp. acquires an asset for $200,000 which they estimate 3 years as the service life. For any taxable income, Shockers Corp uses a tax rate of 50%.
A monopolist's demand curve is P = 100-Q and the total cost curve is TC = 16 + Q^2. The associated marginal cost curve is MC = 2Q. What is the profit maximizing quantity and price, and what will be th
How thw economy revoves from a recession and returns to its long-run equilibrium with out any policy intervention.
What happens when supply is totally elastic or totally inelastic, and a subsidy is given by the government: Will the producer change the amount of units he’s supplying to the market? And will th