On Wal-Mart and Health Care Policy case, what are the issues, interests, informations, alternative strategy and recommendations.

Question 7) Why are the Chinese skeptical about democracy?

Business la chapter 48

1. Was this a horizontal merger, a vertical merger, or a conglomerate merger?

2. How is the market defined, in terms of both product or service and geographic area?

1. Briefly discuss a strategy a firm operating in a perfectly competitive market must take to sustain its profit outlook.                                                                                           
2. A firm operating in a competitive market has the following cost function C = 10 + 2Q². The market demand is Q = 40 – 2P and equilibrium price of output is $20.

1. Calculate the output the firm must produce to maximize its profits.                        
2. Find the price the firm must charge to maximize profits.                            

Desired consumption is C^d = 20 + 0.5Y – 0.1r and desired investment is I^d = 30 – 1.5r. G is 15 and Y is 100. Real money demand is M^d/P = 5 + Y – 0.3i. Provide economic reasons to interpret:

         (a) the consumption function with respect to its components.

2. the investment function with respect to its components.

How does the concept of “opportunity cost” and the idea of “tradeoffs” relate to decision-making?

Why does the term “opportunity cost of capital” mean?

What is “deciding on the margin”?

What is the difference between “positive economic analysis” and “normative economic analysis”?

If we accept that the marketplace is the regulator for those industries where there is no monopoly, do you think that the marketplace makes the same decisions as a regulator? Why or why not? What objectives would a regulator who is regulating a natural monopoly pursue? Are these the best goals? Why or why not?

Use the following information to answer the questions below.

NUT                                                                                                                               250

Exports                                                                                                                          500

Net increase in foreign ownership of U.S.based nonreserve assets                  400

Net increase in U.S. government’s foreign assets                                                  30

Net increase in U.S. private assets                                                                            250

Investment income received in the U.S.                                                                  200

Net increase in U.S. ownership of official reserve assets                                       20

Imports                                                                                                                           600

Net increase in foreign ownership of U.S. reserve assets                                     100

Investment income paid abroad by the U.S.                                                           300

1. What is the current account balance?
2. Does the financial account equal the current account?
3. What is the statistical discrepancy?

1. In the wake of the financial crash of 2008 and ensuing “Great Recession”, Robert Skidelsky, Keynes’s biographer published Return of the Master—strongly suggesting that the economics of JM Keynes is still relevant. Would you, or would you not, agree it is still relevant? Why?

Suppose that the MD = 5E and with its current technology, the firm’s MAC is given by
MAC1 = 200 – 5E.
a) Determine the socially optimal level of emissions E.
b) Determine the emissions tax that would achieve the socially optimal level of emissions.
Now suppose the firm can adopt a new technology that changes is MAC to
New MAC2 = 160 – 4E
Calculate change in costs for the firm from adopting the new technology when:
c) The government uses an emissions standard equal to your answer in (a) above
d) The government uses an emissions tax equal to your answer in (b)
(Assume no change to standard or tax rate after the change in technology)
Now suppose the government adjusts the standard and/or the tax such that MD = New MAC. Calculate the change in total costs for the firm from adopting the new technology when:
e) The government adjusts the standard, and
f) The government adjusts the tax rate

Need help with part e and f

3. You have just been hired as the Labour Relations Coordinator at a public sector organization. Today, your manager has just informed you that the next round of collective bargaining with the union begins on September 1st 2020. She has asked you to put together a comprehensive planning document for the CB process. She wants to see all work tasks, work tasks assigned to people (positions), resources needed to complete tasks and time lines. She suggests that you prepare this planning document in a chart/table/schematic format.

What are the ‘Lessons’ of the Specific Factor Model? Demonstrate this lesson using formal modeling (either graphs or equations).

Briefly explain the difference between Consumer Price Index and the GDP Deflator. Describe in your own words; you can include an exposition of the formula of each, if you wish.

Suppose the CPI in 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019 are 100 and 110, 115 and 130 respectively. What is the inflation rate between 2016 and 2017, and between 2017 and 2018? How would you interpret the change in inflation rates between 2016 and 2018?