Discuss fully Stalin’s efforts to stimulate Soviet industrial and agricultural production through his five year plans and policy of collectivization. Be sure to explain the goal, implementation, and overall impact of each policy.

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Part I: The own-price elasticity of demand.

Questions:

1. What can you tell about the own-price elasticity of demand for the product being offered? Why?

2. How does price elasticity of demand help in business decision making (pricing decision)?

3. List some strategies to reduce the own-price elasticity of demand.

Part II: Supply

Questions:

1. Get to know the competition. Since we can observe only one determinant of supply - the number of sellers- evaluate how large the supply is, in other words, evaluate the degree of competition among sellers in the market being served. Who are the competitors? Do not forget about online competitors.

2. How does market demand and supply affect market prices?

Assume the pandemic dies down before the summer, at which time the lockdown closes. Analyze possibilities for a fast financial recuperation across three situations (1) no unemployment insurance of any sort, (2) unemployment insurance benefits at the pre-pandemic levels, and (3) unemployment protection benefits under the CARES Act.

please give a descriptive solution, using junior year economic vocabulary. Thank you.

Opinions are divided when it comes to the evaluation of minimum wage laws. The issue of raising the minimum wage is always subject to political debates. Which side are you on when it comes to minimum wages? Should there be one or should we repeal it all together? List your arguments clearly.

1. In the early eighties, under the Reagan administration, macroeconomic policies in the United States were characterized by relatively expansionary fiscal policy (fueled by increased defense spending and tax cuts) and very tight monetary policy. Compared to an alternative policy mix which produced the same level of Y using more expansionary monetary policy and more contractionary fiscal policy. Contrast the two different policy mixes graphically and in words. Explain what effects you would expect such policy mixes to have on each of the following:
   1. Interest rates in the United States.
   2. The real exchange rate of the U.S. dollar.
   3. The current account of the U.S. balance of payments.

2. Consider a firm with the following production function: Q = K ^1/3 L ^2/3

(a) Consider an output level of Q = 100. Find the expression of the isoquant for this output level.

(b) Find the marginal product of labor, MPL. Is it increasing, decreasing, or constant in the units of labor, L, that the firm uses?

(c) Find the marginal product of capital, MPK. Is it increasing, decreasing, or constant in the units of capital, K, that the firm uses?

(d) Use your result in parts (b)-(c) to find the marginal rate of technical substitution, MRTS, for this firm.

(e) Is the MRTS increasing or decreasing in the units of labor, L? What does that imply about the shape of the isoquant?

(f) Given your result in part (d), what can you say about the firm’s ability to substitute one input for another? (g) Assume now that the firm were to increase all inputs by a common factor > 0. What happens to the output that the firm produces? [Hint: check whether the firm’s production function exhibits increasing, decreasing, or constant returns to scale.]

1. The condition of the labor market is a central focus of policy makers and households. Let’s consider the overall condition of the American market. Go the website of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and look at the current summary of the employment situation of the United States (http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/empsit.pdf ).
   1. Tables A and B summarizes the major labor data for the economy. Look over the data and highlight in a paragraph or two what is important over the past three months about labor conditions from both the household and the establishment surveys.

In his Treatise on Money (1930) John Maynard Keynes adopted definitions of saving and investment which also recognized the possibility of their divergence. How does Keynes’s logic contrast with Hayek’s logic?

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The current overnight loans rate is 3 percent, with the Bank of Canada's operating band set at 2.75 to 3.25 percent. If the Bank of Canada lowers their operating band to 2.25 to 2.75 percent, which of the following is one of the reasons the overnight rate will fall to within this new range?

Question 44 options:

Contrast formal and informal communication.

Use Statistical Tables to test for serial correlation given the following Durbin-Watson d statistics for serial correlation. Draw a picture for hypothesis testing. State your hypothesis.

1. d=0.62, K=2, N=21, 5-percent, one-sided positive test
2. d=3.89, K=3 N=18, 5-percent, one-sided positive test
3. d=1.31, K=4, N=36, 5-percent, one-sided positive test
4. d=1.19, K=2, N=85, 5-percent, one-sided positive test
5. d=1.29, K=4, N=23, 5-percent, one-sided positive test

5.   Who do you think should be blamed for the collapse of the MBS market in the 2007-09 crisis? Why? (You need to name three parties that played a role and explain WHY they should be blamed.)

How would you satisfy both retailers and consumers when using revenue management tactics?

What is a pointed purpose of each WACC and NPV?