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Is it possible for companies both to maximize financial value for shareholders and to act responsibly in the communities in which they operate, to treat their employees, customers, and suppliers well,
A profit-maximizing firm in a competitive market is currently producing 100 units of output. It has average revenue so $10, average total cost of $8 and fixed cost of $200. a. what is the profit?
Consider this statement: “Conservationists want to save too many spotted owls.” Use graphical analysis accompanied by a concise narrative discussion to explain circumstances unde
Consider a farmer who has access to a bond market where she can borrow or lend at the interest rate R. Assume also that her money holdings nominal balances and the price level stay constant over time.
Which of the following is a kind of decision that can be made at margin? whether to hire new workers or not, whether to go on vacation or not whether to build an addition on house
You’re the manager of global opportunities for a U.S. manufacturer, who is considering expanding sales into Europe. Your market research has identified 3 potential market opportunities: England,
A market contains a group of identical price-taking firms. Each firm has a marginal cost curve MC(Q) = 2Q, where Q is the annual output of each firm. A study reveals that each firm will prod
Suppose that a firm has only one variable input, labor, and firm output is zero when labor is zero. When the firm hires 6 workers it produces 90 units of output. Fixed cost of production are $6 and th
IQ scores are normally distributed and assume that the average IQ for all Economics majors is 108 with a standard deviation of 11. What percentage of Economics majors would have an IQ of more than 1
Total cost and total variable cost are parallel, yet average total cost and average variable cost are not parallel. a. Demonstrate mathematically that ATC and AVC are not parallel. b. Show m
The handmade snuffbox industry is composed of 100 identical firms, each having short – run total costs given by STC = 0.5q2 + 10q + 5 and short – run marginal costs by SMC = q + 10 where q
Thomas Malthus’s gloomy predictions for the future of humanity led ‘economies’ to be called a ‘dismal science’. Show either through the mathematics of production functi
The long-run supply curve for a good is a horizontal line at a price $3 per unit of the good. The demand curve for the good is QD = 50-2P. (a) What is the equilibrium output of the good?
The index most widely used by the government and the private sector to measure changes in the cost of living is the (a) the GDP deflator, (b) Producer Price Index, (c) The interest rate, (d) C
Say you are the manager of a perfectly competitive firm selling a product. Your business is making a loss because total revenue is less than total costs. What would you do--shut down or continue to op
which of the following is not a goal of government programs? A. To enforce private property rights B. To prohibit natural monopolies C. To reduce pollution D. To transfer money f
since the AC curve in the problem is upward-sloping everywhere, it is not possible to construct a zero-profit equilibrium given the assumptions of the problem (this outcome requires a U-shaped AC curv
When you are given the units of resource, total product, and marginal product. what do you need to find to determine how many resources the firm will employ, what the MRP would be.
Suppose you decide to elicit high CEO effort when and if good luck occurs by paying the bonus for $1 billion outcomes only. What criticism can you see with this incentive contract plan?
Determine if the demand for the following products is price elastic or price inelastic, and explain your answer. In your explanation, be sure to include how the necessity of a good and the availabilit
One of the stages of economic growth is capital intensive, where wealth is created throught the efficient use of money and industrial manufacturing occurs. What latin american country fits into this
Sandra purchases 5 pounds of coffee and 10 gallons of milk per month when the price of coffee is $10 per pound. She purchases 6 pounds of coffee and 12 gallons of milk per month when the price of coff
A long-run supply curve is flatter than a short-run supply curve because A. firms can enter and exit a market more easily in the long run than in the short run. B. long-run supply curves are
Suppose that some firms in a competitive industry are earning zero economic profits, while others are experiencing losses. All else equal, in the long run, we would expect the number of firms in the i
A monopolist is currently producing a level of output where Price = $110; Marginal Revenue = $10; Quantity = 100; Total Cost = $15,000; Marginal Cost = $10; Total Fixed Cost = $4,000. To maximize