Start Discovering Solved Questions and Your Course Assignments
TextBooks Included
Active Tutors
Asked Questions
Answered Questions
Oscar consumes two goods, wine and cheese. His weekly income is $500. What can you conclude by comparing the first and the last of these budget constraints?
What is her MRS of bananas for pears-that is, how many bananas would she voluntarily give up to get an extra pear?
How would Smith explain the relative prices of water and diamonds? Would Ricardo's concept of diminishing returns pose some problem for this explanation?
1. What is the balance on your margin account after Mondays close?
The equivalent uniform annual cost per machine (years 1-5) at an interest rate of 8% per year is?
In question above if the maintenance costs rose by 6% per year instead of the fixed amount what is the present value of the maintenance costs?
Spot oil prices are $68 and the one year risk free rate is 3.25%. The arbitrage profit implied by these prices is________?
If an investor implemented a reverse cash and carry trade, what would the arbitrage profit be? What is the theoretical futures price?
How risky the stock is. Is its price prone to wild swings up and down? Or has the price been relatively stable the last few years?
Describe the different policy trade-offs implied by the short-run Phillips curve and the long-run Phillips curve. What forces shift the long-run Phillips curve?
What happens to the AFC per paper, the MC per paper, and the minimum amount that you must charge to break even on these costs?
If you were the production manager at BCAG, how would you justify the long-term nature of the contact with Thyssen Inc.?
What happens to velocity if the average price level falls to $2 per unit, the money supply is $2,000, and real GDP is 4,000 units?
Why should the Fed increase or decrease the money supply? If the Fed uses open-market operations, should it buy or sell government securities?
Using an AD-AS diagram, illustrate and explain the short-run and longrun impacts of an increase in the money supply.
What is your average money balance during the pay period? How would each of the following changes affect your average monthly balance?
The multiplier on Treasury note futures is $100,000. How many contracts do you buy or sell?
How did the Fed respond to the financial crisis of 2008? What unusual actions did the Fed undertake to calm troubled financial markets and stabilize banks?
What situation in which both parties entering into a contract could benefit from slightly ambiguous language contained in the contract.
Does it make economic sense to contract out some government services?
Using a graph and a table use two goods to construct a production possibilities curve. Clearly explain what a variety of different points on the curve mean.
Evaluate as accurately as you can how each of the following individuals would be affected by unanticipated inflation of 10 percent per year:
Explain several dimensions of the shareholder-principal conflict with manager-agents known as the principal-agent problem.
Burden of the Debt Suppose that budget deficits are financed to a considerable. How does this create a potential burden on future generations of Americans?
Why did interest payments on the national debt fall from 15.4 percent of the federal budget in 1996. Why is this percentage expected to increase in the future?