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Compare the three investments below in terms of their riskiness. What is the best way to evaluate the riskiness of an investment given the information you have on them?
Your goal is to maximize shareholder value. Explain how each of the following events is likely to affect shareholder value and identify uncertainties related to their effects.
Calculate the marginal tax rate and average tax rate for a family with an income of $100,000 when the tax rate for the first 10,000 is zero, for the next 20,000 is 10%.
Assume the refundable credit is reduced by 15 percent on the amount of earnings in excess of $10,500. At what income is the credit reduced to zero?
When she retires her marginal tax rate will drop to 25 percent, as she will be in a lower tax bracket. As her financial advisor, which option do you recommend?
Analyze the characteristics that make any transaction possible and justify the importance of each of the characteristics. Evaluate the role institutions play in transactions and discuss the likely eco
Seize private property and make way for projects that would generate higher tax returns for the community. Be sure to list the title of the article you read and its site"
How does the Federal Government finance this deficit spending?(that is, where does it get the money to spend when it runs a deficit?)
Find the optimal price-quantity if the firm is not able to price discriminate. Find the optimal price-quantity if the firm can price discriminate but cannot charge a two part tariff.
Suppose you are part of a research team evaluating a proposal to clean up a hazardous waste site. You are in charge of assessing the incremental benefits which methods would you choose to derive th
Derive an expression for average cost. Derive an expression for marginal costs. Is there any range of production characterized by scale of economies? At what production level are scale economies exh
If all firms will only earn a normal profit in the long run, why would any firms bother to develop new products or lower-cost production methods? Explain.
Discuss the concept of a pure public good with a few examples, the Pareto optimality in a perfectly competitive world of two individuals, A and B, and two goods.
Calculate exponential smoothing forecasts for each month and for July. Use a coefficient of 0.5 and assume that the forecast for January was 8. Also evaluate the quality of the exponential smoothing
He returns to that vendor later in the morning to find that the vendor has increased her price to $3.90 per cup. Chad buys a second cup. Which of the following statements is correct?
Suppose the market demand curve for a good passes through the point (quantity demanded = 100, price = $25). If there are five buyers in the market, then?
Using marginal productivity theory, explain how an increase in the minimum wage affects the employment of unskilled workers.
Explain the impact of each of the following upon chartered bank reserves: (1) the Bank of Canada sells government bonds in the open market to private buyers.
Which of the following statements is TRUE regarding the loss in consumer surplus from a tariff? Lost consumer surplus becomes producer and government welfare gain with no inefficiency.
A monopolist faces demand given by: P = 100 - 0.2QD , and has marginal costs given by:MC = 4 + 0.4Q. How much would be produced if this was a perfectly competitive market? What would be the price?
Explain the effect this policy would have on the nation's real risk-free interest rate, nominal interest rates, real and nominal GDP, gross private domestic investment, unemployment rate.
If unregulated competitive markets promote "efficient" patterns of resource use, why has unregulated competition led to such serious over allocation of resources to fishing?
Explain why competitive markets normally lead profit maximizing firms to make choices about resource use that lead to an "efficient" allocation of resources to the market?
Does the country have an inflationary gap or a recessionary gap and what is its magnitude? Explain the effects of an increase in consumer spending on the short-run macroeconomic equilibrium.
Interest costs of $250,000, material costs of $500,000, and pays rent for structures of $250,000. Calculate the corporation's total accounting profit.