1. What, exactly, are “inventories”? What are the three ‘types,’ or areas, of inventories? 2. Why does a firm hold inventories? In theory, why did that hypothetical car company hold 400,000 cars?? Please discuss three reasons. 3. If our sales volume jumped wildly from month to month, why would it be difficult to match production volume with sales volume each month? 4. What will happen to our “400,000 cars, produced but not yet sold” inventory if, in theory, interest rates were to double, from, say, 10% to, say 20%? Why?

What do you think of different prices for different segments? Do you see any dilemmas?

Evaluate how the major branches of Islam, Sunni and Shia, create conflict. Your response should be a minimum of 200 words.

What is a possible scenario planning and payoff matrices of the business Beyond Meat? (open question)

State a reason(s) why supply-side economics has not reduced income inequality?

Explain the paradox that establishing a union can increase both wages and employment, but once the union is established it must trade off increases in one for the other.

I want atleast 10 lines for each part. Please write your own opinion, dont copy paste.

Qs 1 a.Environmental Economics: How does the scarcity principle apply to the cap and trade system for carbon emissions?

Qs 1 b. Environmental Justice: Do technologically and economically advanced nations have a responsibility to help solve environmental problems in the developing world? Why or Why not?

Question 1: (Reasons for International Specialization) What determines which goods a country should produce and export?

Question 2: (The Current System: Managed Float) What is a managed float? What are the disadvantages of freely floating exchange rates that led countries to the managed float system?

Question 3: (Foreign Aid and Economic Development) Foreign aid, if it is to be successful in enhancing economic development, must lead to a more productive economy. Describe some of the problems in achieving such an objective through foreign aid.

Recently the Bank of Canada (BOC) asked retail stores to continue accepting cash from customers as payment for in store retail sales (ie for groceries or clothing). Why does the BOC have to make this request? Doesn’t Canada’s “legal tender” law require retailers to accept cash as payment by customers? Briefly explain.

The M2 Corporations is considering expanding its ergonomics consulting business. To do so, several pieces of equipment for performing a given analysis technique must be purchased. The CEO estimates that it will cost $155,000 to expand the business, resulting in $32,000 in revenues per year, $12,000 in expenses per year, and a salvage value of $3,000. If the useful life of the expansion is expected to be 15 years, and the corporation's MARR is 15%...

a) Should they undertake the expansion? YOU MUST USE BENEFIT/COST RATIO

b) What would the break-even point be for annual revenues for this problem?

1. What is the importance for the insurance firms to write “ideally insurable” loss exposures? If the applicant’s loss exposure is not “ideally insurable”, what can the insurance firms do to insure it?

Since the outbreak of the Coronavirus Canadian financial markets including those for corporate bonds have become less liquid.

(a ) What is the likely explanation for the reduction of market liquidity in financial markets? Briefly explain.

(b ) What action could the Bank of Canada (BOC) take to help restore market liquidity in the financial markets? Briefly explain how this action would work to improve market liquidity.

Assume in 2019 the rate of job separation is 1% and the rate of job finding is 19%. In 2020 during a recession, 85 out of every 1000 employed workers become separated from their jobs while 21 out of every 100 unemployed workers find jobs.

a. what is the natural rate of unemployment during the recession?

b. what is the percent change in the unemployment rate between 2019 and 2020?

c. describe a governmental program that will decrease the unemployment rate