To automatically insert electronic components in printed circuit boards for a cell phone production line, a $500,000 surface mount placement (SMP) machine is being evaluated by a manufacturing engineer at Motorolla. Over the 10-year planning horizon, it is estimated the SMP machine will produce annual cost savings of $92,500. The engineer estimates the machine will be worth $50,000 at the end of the 10-year period. Based on the firm’s 10% MARR, how long does it take for the new SMP machine to fully recover its initial cost, including the Time Value of Money (TVOM)? (i.e., use discounted payback period).

Using the list of NIC growth factors, evaluate India and China as to their prospects for rapid growth. Which factors will be problems for India? For China?

What is the discount rate for a momentary self?

What are two areas that you believe are primary contributors to the '08-'09 financial crisis for both the US and Iceland? Hello! Please help explain the two areas from an economic standpoint (preferably Macro but anything will do).

1. The labor demand curve tells us

A. the marginal product created by an additional worker times the wage.

B. the marginal revenue created by an additional worker.

C. how many workers the firm will want to hire, given the wage.

E. the marginal profit generated by an additional worker.

2. Third-party payers for medical care include all of the following EXCEPT:

a. employer-provided medical insurance.

b. Medicare

c. payments from the patient's savings

d. Medicaid

3. An employer retirement plan that provides a predetermined monthly amount of income when you retire is called a

A. Social Security plan.

B. 401(k) plan.

C. defined contribution plan.

D. defined benefit plan.

You are tasked with opening a new factory for your business in another country. You speak the language and have spent some time living abroad so you are confident in your ability to work in anther culture. You are a skilled technical manager and believe you have a good team (mixed expatriates and local managers and employees). However, shortly after starting your project you realize that some things are not getting done - some of the contractors are slow to respond or slow to deliver. As you ponder this and get further behind schedule, one of your managers approaches you with a suggestion, namely: the contractors are expecting to be paid something under the table due to the high local tax rates. If they are not paid at least part of their money that way, they will continue to be slow in delivering goods and services.

What do you do?

Prepare an essay in response to discuss the meaning or implications of using new technology to understand and impact consumer.

Answer the following question listed below. This assignment has a 150 minimum word count. You will also be required to reply to 1 response (100 minimum word count for each response) and use at least one credible reference.

1. List 3 facts about small businesses.

2. What are advantages in starting a small business?

3. Which Entrepreneurial Resource would you make use of?

What is “autonomous consumption”?

Describe two shocks that would increase a nation’s autonomous consumption.

According to the classical model, how would national saving (S) and investment (I) be affected (up, down, or no change) by those

shocks? How would the aggregate demand for goods (Yd) be affected (up, down, or no change)? Explain.

please use an equation with arrows or a diagram along with words, not just words

A University's food services produces 'square meals' (SM) using only one input,

'unmentionable' (U), and a remarkable production process. The production function is:

SM = U²

Part 1. This production function exhibits Increasing, Decreasing/Diminishing or Constant returns to scale?     IncreasingConstantDecreasing/DiminishingIncreasing  

Part 2. How many Units does it take to produce 225 square meals?    

Part 3. How many square meals can be produced with 15 units of unmentionable?    

Part 4. If the input costs 5 per unit, what is the average cost (AC) of producing 25 square meals?    

Part 5. If the input costs 5 per unit, what is the average cost (AC) of producing 125 square meals?    

Part 6. The total cost function is rising at an Increasing, Decreasing/Diminishing or Constant rate?   

Given all the negative effects of bitcoin, why are many central bankers contemplating the release of their own digital currency? What are the possible benefits?

   The Market(Economy) is in a recession. The Federal Reserve start an open market operation. Explain in detail how economy will respond.

1. Explain how the Open Market Operation will impact the real economy,
2. Explain the Open Market Operation's impact on asset allocations and the prices of securities;
3. Explain each step of the adjustment of this process
4. Graph the process.     

As a result of technology, more and more of us are interacting with and operating within networks than ever before. Facebook is an obvious example of how network externalities are generated by the addition of new users. How has your own life (social, work and school related) been affected by the growing importance of networks? Can you think of any downsides to the trend?

Suppose a Cobb Douglass production function with two inputs and exponents inside the production function y = x α1 1 x α2 2 that are less than one. Derive the profit maximizing choices of x1, x2, and y for arbitrary prices. How does this simply if α1 and α2 sum up to one?