Think about the television programs and films you have seen recently that depicted business in some way. How were businesses and business people portrayed? Is there anything business could or should do to improve its media image? Some businesses try to stay out of the limelight. Why might that be? What do you think of that strategy? Do you believe that employees are more attracted and committed to ethical organizations? Are you? Why or why not?
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GIVE A THOROUGH EXPLANATION FOR WHY THIS STATEMENT IS TRUE & PROVIDE A RELEVANT GRAPH
1. The Elasticity of demand for labor is higher the higher the elasticity of supply of the substitutable input.
2. SL = MFC in a perfectly competitive input firm or for an imperfectly competitive firm that hires heterogeneous labor (or practices wage discrimination).
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Consider the following economy:
Labor supply: Nt= 90
Capital stock: Kt = 90
Government spending: Gt = 20
Tax collections: Tt = 20
Production function: Yt = 2(Kt)0.5 (Nt)0.5
Real money demand Lt = 2Yt - 200rt
Consumption function: Ct = 16 + 0.8(Yd)t
Domestic price level: Pt = 4
Investment function: It = 25 - 50rt
Nominal money supply: Mt = 1296
QUESTIONS:
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List and briefly explain each of the four properties of indifference curves. Provide an example where you have made a buying decision based on one or more of these properties. Justify your answer.
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A. In what way can government's expenditures on education affect the economic growth? In what way the economic growth can affect government's expenditures on education?
B. Discuss pros and cons for small local governments' units.
C. "Higher earners should be subject to higher tax rate". Discuss.
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Canada Mexico United States
Clothing 6 15 30
Cars 20 20 30
b)Draw the world’d production possibility curve and if
the three countries find themselves in an open economy.
Graph the marginal cost of of producing cars in this
simple economy. Make sure to explain each graph.
2) Suppose a lake is publicly owned, i.e. a common property resource, with free fishing for all. The number of fish caught varies with the number of people fishing as follows:
Labour Total Product
1 13
2 25
3 36
4 46
5 55
6 63
7 70
8 76
9 81
Assume the market price of these fish is $10 per fish, and this price is not affected by the number of fish caught in this lake. Assume that all fishermen can earn $100 per day in their next best alternative. Assume the fishermen share equally in the proceeds of the lake.
a) Explain much fishing will occur ina common property setting i.e. how many people would join the fishery?
b) Assume now that the lake is privately owned and the owner hires fishermen for $100 per day. How much fishing would the owner allow i.e. how many people would join the fishery?
c) Why is the common property result considered to be inefficient?
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Explain the model of labor migration to and from urban areas as fully as you can in words. In particular address the following:
a. Why do young workers and some older workers locate in the urban area?
b. Who locates in the rural area? Why?
c. Why don’t firms all locate in one large city?
d. What determines the lifetime incomes of workers?
e. Explain the conditions for steady-state equilibrium.
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PLEASE ANSWER EACH QUESTION 1 thru 4
Question 1.
In a market with perfectly competitive firms, the market demand curve is and the demand curve facing each individual firm is?
Select one:
a. downward sloping; horizontal
b. upward sloping; horizontal
c. horizontal; upward sloping
d. horizontal; downward sloping
e. horizontal; horizontal
Question 2.
Pure monopoly is defined as?
Select one:
a. an industry consisting of a single seller.
b. a market in which many rival firms compete for sales.
c. a market structure consisting of a single buyer.
d. a market structure that involves many substitute products.
Tom is the monopoly provider of a town's TV cable service, whose current subscription price is $20.00 per month. In order to attract one more subscriber, he has to lower his price to $19.95. What is true of Tom's marginal revenue from that additional subscriber?
Question 3
Select one:
a. Tom's marginal revenue is between $19.95 and $20.00.
b. Tom's marginal revenue is greater than $19.95.
c. Tom's marginal revenue equals $19.95.
d. Tom's marginal revenue is less than $19.95.
Question 4.
Which market structure has the largest number of firms?
Select one:
a. monopolistic competition
b. monopoly
c. oligopoly
d. perfect competition
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3. Explain why average total cost and average variable cost tend to get closer as output increases. Will the curves ever meet? Why or why not?
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Make a paragraph describing the changing roles of women following the American Revolution
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a) What are the justification for public intervention when one of the hypothesis of the first theorem of welfare is violated?
b) Outline the major limits and shortcomings of economic policy coordination.
c) Write short notes on each of the following.
i) Actual (financial) or cyclically adjusted (structural) deficit.
ii) Budgetary balance
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