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Task: Consider the given scenario to understand relationship between marginal and average values.
Q1. Refer to the above data. If year 3 is chosen as the base year, what is the price index for year 1. Q2. Refer to the above data. What is the nominal GDP for year 4? Q3. Refer to the above data. Wha
What is the difference between explicit and implicit costs? Which of the costs is most closely associated with opportunity costs and why?
For cases A through F in the following table, would you (1) Operate or shut down in the short run and (2) Expand your plant or exit the industry in the long run?
Duncombe Village Golf Course is considering the purchase of new equipment that will cost $1,200,000 if purchased today and will generate the following cash disbursements and receipts.
Each instance that follows is an example of one of the four types of market failure (imperfect market structure; the existence of public goods; the presence of external costs and benefits; and imper
Contrast the total of the ordering costs and carrying costs at EOQ to the total ordering and carrying costs if the cans were all ordered at the beginning of the year. Clearly label the calculations
Among the various interested parties - the monopoly firm, the monopoly's consumers, and other taxpayers - who would support the policy and who would oppose it?
Karen runs a print shop that makes posters for large companies. It is a very competitive business. The market price is currently $1 per poster. She has fixed costs of $250.
The original revenue function for the microchip producer is R=170Q-20Q2. Derive the expression for marginal revenue, and use it to find the output level at which revenue is maximized. Confirm that t
Question 1. Explain the process of profit determination in the short- and long-runs. Question 2. State the conditions under which abnormal profits cannot be earned in a market in the long-runs.
a. At what point (in terms of workers) do we see evidence of diminishing marginal product? b. Is the slope of the Total Product curve steeper when 2 workers are employed or when 5 workers are employed
Indicate the effect that each of the following conditions will have on a firm's average variable cost curve and its average total cost curve.
What is the law of diminishing returns? Can you give an example of when diminishing returns have set in (could set in) at a work place?
Task: A high-end lamp monopolist operates in the Mid-West where the demand for lamps is given by Q1 = 200 - P1. Producing one lamp costs 10 per unit. Q1. Derive the profit maximizing price and the p
(1) Compute the estimated inventory at May 31, assuming that the gross profit is 30% of sales. (2) Compute the estimated inventory at May 31, assuming that the gross profit is 30% of cost.
Consider a sharecropper whose contract calls for him to receive 3/4 of the output produced in the farm on which he works. Suppose that the value of the marginal product of labor on the shared croppe
Calculate the price-ouptut combination and total economic profits that would result if competitors offer clones that make the market perfectly competitive.
When Burger Barn hires one worker, 20 customers can be served in an hour. When Burger Barn hires two workers, 50 customers can be served in an hour. The marginal product of the second worker is ____
What is the marginal product of the labor (L) used by the firm? Does this marginal product increase/decrease/remain constant when L increases? Provide a brief explanation for your result.
Which set of data illustrates aggregate supply in the immediate short-run in North Vaudeville? The short run? The long run?
Question 1: Please analyze reasons why this coffee bean cartel is formed Question 2: What would be the potential reasons to break a cartel and in what situations a cartel can sustain.
Your financial analysis department estimates that the price of a pottery machine is $2,000 per day. Can you reduce the cost of producing 1,800 pots per day by adding a pottery machine to your produc
A. How many units of output should she tell managers to sell in the second market? B. How many units of output should she tell managers to sell in the first market?
a) Calculate the profit -maximizing price and quantity for this monopolist. Also calculate its profit.