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How are the three versions of the Solow Growth Model different? Why do you think we...

How are the three versions of the Solow Growth Model different?

Why do you think we need three different versions of the same model? (Hint: Steady-state growth rates)

What is convergence and conditional convergence? Give examples.  

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what has happened to wealth inequality in the U.S. in recent years? what accounts for those...

what has happened to wealth inequality in the U.S. in recent years? what accounts for those changes?

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Assume that due to an increase in demand, the average domestic airline fare increased from $319.85...

Assume that due to an increase in demand, the average domestic airline fare increased from $319.85 in the fourth quarter of 2013 to $328.12 in the first quarter of 2014, an increase of $8.27. The number of passenger tickets sold in the fourth quarter of 2013 was 151.4 million. Over the same period, the airlines’ costs remained roughly the same: the price of jet fuel averaged around $2 per gallon in both quarters, and airline pilots’ salaries remained roughly the same, averaging $117,060 per year in 2013). Can you determine precisely by how much producer surplus has increased as a result of the $8.27 increase in the average fare? If you cannot be precise, can you determine whether it will be less than, or more than, a specific amount?

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How can interest groups influence a candidate’s campaign agenda?

How can interest groups influence a candidate’s campaign agenda?

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Why does the average revenue and marginal revenue curve seperate for a monopolist.

Why does the average revenue and marginal revenue curve seperate for a monopolist.

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A driver going to the city center has the choice between a small road and the...

A driver going to the city center has the choice between a small road and the highway. The small road takes 25 minutes (1500 seconds) and is never affected by traffic. The highway takes only 15 minutes (900 seconds) but travel time increases by 2 seconds every time a new person gets in it. The travel time on the highway is therefore 15 minutes + 2 seconds per entrant.

  1. Explain why Net Benefits (NB) = 0 at the Tragedy of the Commons. Hints: What would happen if NB > 0? Think of the Net Benefits as the Average Net Benefit (for each driver) multiplied by the number of drivers (NB = ANB*N).

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Given the following supply and demand equations, solve the following supply: p=q Demand: p=200-p a) What...

Given the following supply and demand equations, solve the following

supply: p=q

Demand: p=200-p

a) What is the market equilibrium price and quantity?

b) What is the Consumer surplus and the producer surplus?

c) The government enacts a price ceiling of $120. What is the new consumer surplus?

d) Assume now the government enacts a price ceiling of $20. What is the new consumer surplus?

e) When the price ceiling is $20, consumer surplus declines, compared to the market equilibrium. Why? (this question gives answer options)

1. The lower prices do not overcome reduced quantity

2.The lower quantity does compensate for higher prices

3. Both 1 and 2

4. The lower prices create a marginal elasticity of demand

f) What is the deadweight loss from the price ceiling of $20?

g) What is the Producer Surplus under a price ceiling of $20?

Thank-you in advance for the help!!!

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Joe is looking to expand his tiger collection. The market for white tigers has the following...

Joe is looking to expand his tiger collection. The market for white tigers has the following market demand and market supply functions:

D(P) = 200 − 2P and S(p) = 6P − 120

a. Graph the market supply and demand curves and solve for the equilibrium price and quantity of white tigers. Label your graph and remember to put price on the y-axis.

b. A tax of $10 per tiger is imposed on suppliers. What is the new market price and quantity as a result of the tax?

c. Find the value of consumer surplus, producer surplus, tax revenue, and economic welfare after the tax was implemented.

d. Finally calculate the deadweight loss created by the tax

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Supply: p= q Demand: p= 200-q 25.The government enacts a price ceiling of $120. What is...

Supply: p= q Demand: p= 200-q

25.The government enacts a price ceiling of $120. What is the new Consumer Surplus?

A)$10,000 (B)$1,000 (C)$2,225 (D)None of the above

26.Assume now that the government enacts a price ceiling of $20. What is the new consumer Surplus?   

A)$3,200 (B)$3,400 (C)$312.50 (D)$6,400

27.When the price ceiling is $20, consumer surplus declines, compared to the marketequilibrium. Why?

(A)The lower prices do not overcome reduced quantity (B)The lower quantity does compensate for higher prices (C)Both A and B

(D)The lower prices create a marginal elasticity of demand

28.What is the Deadweight Loss from a price ceiling of $20?

(A)$3,200 (B)$3,400 (C)$10,800 (D)$6,400

29.What is the Producer Surplus under a price ceiling of $20?

(A)$400 (B)$200 (C)$100 (D)$166.67

30.Which of the following policies is an example of a price ceiling?

(A)Rent controls (B)Minimum wages (C)Taxes (D)Subsidies

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Suppose the nomianal interest rate for 1-year borrowing and lending in the U.S (i$) is currently...

Suppose the nomianal interest rate for 1-year borrowing and lending in the U.S (i$) is currently 5%,while the nominal interest rate on 1 -year borrowing and leading in the U.K (1£) is 3%. Suppose,too, that nominal British pound/U.s. dollar exchange rate is to be £1.60/$ next year (i.e-1(£/$)e= £1.60/$).

A.According to the theory of Interest Rate Parity, what is the current equilibrium nominal exchange rate between the pound and the dollar (E0(£/$))?

B. All else equal, if the U.S. interest rate increased to 8%, what would be the new equilibrium

exchange rate?

C.All else equal (i.e. with both i$and E eat their initial levels), if the U.K. interest rate increased to 8%, what would the new equilibrium exchange rate be?

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You have just been appointed to a special Presidential Task Force on Economic Growth. You are...

You have just been appointed to a special Presidential Task Force on Economic Growth. You are responsible for proposing three policies that the government can enact to increase the growth rate. What policies would you recommend and why?

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One of the Principles of economics “Markets Are Usually A Good Way to Organize Economic Activity”....

One of the Principles of economics “Markets Are Usually A Good Way to Organize Economic Activity”. Based on your understanding of this principle, first, explain in detail the idea behind this principle. Second, how the resources and economic activity organized under socialism and capitalist systems. Third, in your opinion, which system that you believe is better in the allocation of resources as well as Organize Economic Activity

500 MINIMUM

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Today and due to the spread of COVID19, we can observe that some sectors in an...

Today and due to the spread of COVID19, we can observe that some sectors in an economy are expanding will others contracting. Using the demand-supply framework, give an example for one industry that is growing and one industry that is shrinking. Use the graphs to explain your idea and demonstrate why this is happening.

800 WORDS MINIMUM

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Q.1; The Fed’s “dual mandate” includes ______, and the policy instruments available to the Fed as...

Q.1; The Fed’s “dual mandate” includes ______, and the policy instruments available to the Fed as it tries to achieve its dual mandates _______ .

a. zero inflation and moderate long-term interest rates; the government budget deficit or surplus

b. maximum economic growth and zero inflation; the federal funds rate

c. maximum aggregate demand and aggregate supply; government expenditure on goods

d. maximum employment and stable prices; the federal funds rate.

Q.2; One of the major reasons why the United States exports jet airplanes is:

a. the U.S. can sell jet airplanes at a higher price than other nations.

b. the U.S. owns more physical endowments, such as mineral resources, than other countries.

c. foreign nations have a higher opportunity cost of production of jet airplanes.

d. the U.S. is able to outproduce other countries in jet airplanes.

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1. How did President Truman’s containment policy differ from the Marshall Plan? 2. How did President...

1. How did President Truman’s containment policy differ from the Marshall Plan?

2. How did President Eisenhower manage U.S. foreign affairs?   

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