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Commmon and preferred stock-issuances and dividends. Permabilt Corp. was incorporated on January 1, 2003, and issued the following stock, for cash:
Define the following: 1. Transfer payments, and 2. Explain why they are not included in the government purchases part of the GDP accounts
Problem: Briefly discuss the major causes of income inequality. What factors have contributed to greater income inequality since 1970?
Consider two methods for achieving less water use in a community. The first method includes trying to convince people to apply water conservation measures and to use less water at current prices.
Explain why longer term yields actually increased following the decline in the federal funds rate and what the increased difference between long term and short term rates signifies about investor ex
Discuss the relative advantages and disadvantages of these two approaches to product development.
What is the optimal set up cost? What is the optimal order quantity in this case?
Problem: An increase in the price level will: a. shift the aggregate expenditure function upward b. shift the aggregate expenditure function downward c. result in a movement upward along the aggregate
Problem: Is there a relationship between the elasticity of demand and revenue? Explain.
True or false and explain. "The AD schedule slopes downward because real income rises as the price level declines and everybody buys more as their real income rises."
Testing procedures required by the US Food and Drug Administration raise the cost and price of drugs. Should we eliminate such requirements in order to ease inflationary pressures? How about the reg
Question 1. Between 1929 and 1933, GDP measured in current prices fell from $96 billion to $48 billion. Over the same period, the relevant price index fell from 100 to 75. a. What was the percentage
What is an opportunity cost? Why do economists consider opportunity costs? Provide an example of at least three possible opportunity costs of setting aside a mountain wilderness as a wilderness area
I understand that Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is the broadest measure of output for an economy. But what exactly is GDP and what does it measure?
Problem: The XYZ Company has estimated the expected cash flows [in thousands] for 1996 to be as follows:
Evaluate this argument, and decide your vote whether to approve a fare increase or not proposed by the Taxi Cab Owners Association.
How much total revenue can be generated each month under the pricing plan in the previous question?
Two companies, Company A and Company B, are deciding whether each should implement a new pricing strategy, which may or may not result in a price war.
Now determine the following and explain: a. Price Index for 2012 b. Real GDP c. Real wages d. Real price of gas e. Real money supply or real balances f. Price index for 2013 if the inflation rate is 2
Task: Given that the marginal propensity to consume (MPC) is .875: Problem 1) What is the marginal propensity to save (MPS)?
Locating an article (example) that would meet the criteria below: A minimum of three general economic principles related to the article. Identification of three to five macroeconomic indices
Problem 1) What is the inflation rate? Is inflation a worry, or are we in a period of stable prices?
What is happening to the value of the U.S. dollar these days? What causes the value of the U.S. dollar to rise or fall? Who demands U.S. dollar? Who supplies U.S. dollar?
Task: Identify the four major tools of monetary policy. Then describe how changes in the Fed's major policy tools leads to: 1. Expansionary monetary policies 2. Restrictive or contradictory monetary p
The financial crisis of 2008 caused macroeconomists to rethink monetary and fiscal policies. Economists, financial experts, and government policy makers are victims of what former Fed chairman Alan