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Question 1. What is its Traditional Human Development Index (HDI)? Question 2. Calculate how much its life expectancy would have to rise to achieve "medium human development" status (that is, a Trad
Actually Apple is how big, based on Market Capitalization and explain: a) Top 10 companies in the world. b) Top 10 companies in the USA. c) Top 50 companies in the USA. d) Top 100 companies in the USA
Payoffs in dollars of weekly profit. Explain the statements below. a) The pricing decision facing Burger King and McDonald's is a prisoners' dilemma. b) Cooperation between Burger King and McDonald's
Assess the empirical evidence on the relationship between corruption and economic growth. Could you illustrate with a case study of an Asian economy?
Question 1: What is poverty? Question 2: How does the United States define who is poor? Question 3: What is the current poverty rate?
Problem: When you see a lighthouse and a child asks who made this (or had it made) how will you explain? Why?
In light principle-agent theory, why might dentists and attorneys be required to subscribe to professional codes of ethics that prevent (or at least limit) their ability to sell unneeded services to
How do information flows correspond to the distinction between time-saving and time-using technologies?
Problem: When an increase in precaution will reduce liability from 10% to 4%, for example, how do you compute that? If the damages were $500,000 would it be 6% of $500,000?
Calculate the marginal cost and marginal benefit of posting the attendant. According to the marginal Hand Rule, would the barge owner be found negligent for failing to post an attendant?
Perform a Pareto analysis on the data to determine the relative importance of the factors and plot in a Pareto chart.
How the hypothesis of diminishing marginal utility is used to explain both the demand curve's negative slope and consumer surplus - a central concept in benefit-cost analysis;
What are the factors that determine an optimal currency union? Would the Canadian adoption of the U.S. dollar be optimal given these factors? Explain.
What is the profit-maximizing level of price and quantity for this monopolist? What will profits be at this price and output level?
A. Calculate the net present value for each. Which is more desirable according to the NPV criterion? B. Calculate the profitability index for each. Which is more desirable according to the PI criteri
The formula for the present value factor of an annuity is given below where r is the rate of interest and n is the number of years. To get the present value of the stream of annuities multiply the P
Suppose a firm's demand curve is given by P=120-0.5Q. Find the (value of) price elasticity of demand (point elasticity) for the demand curve when the price is $100. Is demand elastic or inelastic?
a. Determine the overhead rate for each activity. b. Assign the manufacturing overhead costs for April to the two products using activity-based costing.
Suppose compensation is given by W = 450,000 + 220p + 15S, where W = total compensation of the CEO, p = company profits (in millions) = $300, and S = Sales (in millions) = $500. What percentage of t
What's wrong with the following statement? The economic costs of international trade usually exceed the economic benefits in both the short-term and long-term.
Question: What is the practice by a monopolist of charging each buyer the highest price he/she is willing to pay is called?
I select ALLTEL Wireless Corporate, briefly explain how this company uses dynamic pricing. Discuss the benefits and drawbacks of dynamic pricing for this particular company. Conclude with a summary
Do you agree with this statement? Has the firm been practicing target costing? Explain your reasoning.
Contrast CEA with utilitarianism. Do its differences, as you characterize them, make it a better or worse account of what policies we should follow in resource allocation for health?
Yoshika Landscaping is contemplating purchasing a new ditch-digging machine that promises savings of $5,600 per year for 10 years. The machine costs $21,970, and no salvage value is expected. The co