A consumer has a total budget of $200. There are two (2) goods that are preferred by the consumer, organic apples and organic bananas. Organic apples retail for $10 per pound and the organic bananas retail for $5 per pound.

a. Derive the Budget constraint equation based on the data above.

b. Discuss (use of graph is not required, given the limitation here), the income and substitution effects of a price change, if the price of apples is reduced by 50%. In other words, how is the consumer better or worse off as a result of the price change, with specific reference to the concepts of income and substitution effects.

c. If you are told that following the 50% price reduction in apples, the quantity of apples consumed increases from 500 to 750 units, calculate the point price elasticity of demand. Discuss the significance of the value of the point elasticity calculated.

d. How would the answer derived in part (c) affect the revenues of the firm?

Other things being equal, which of the following could decrease the average cost of
producing automobiles in the United States?
A. An increase in wages paid to automobile workers.
B. A decrease in the average product of automobile workers.
C. An increase in the price of steel.
D. An increase in the price of automobiles.
E. An increase in the average product of automobile workers.

The law of diminishing marginal returns implies that
A. the marginal product of labor in a factory will increase continually as more workers
are hired in the short run.
B. the average product of labor in a factory will increase at first and then decrease in
the short run as more workers are hired.
C. the average product of labor will continually increase in a factory in the short run as
more workers are hired.
D. the average cost of production will increase at first and then decrease in a factory in
the short run as more is produced per day.

Number of workers
Per week
Output
(Yards of fabric per week)
1 20
2 30
3 37
4 42
5 45
6 47

If the factory is currently employing 4 workers, then which of the following is true?
A. The marginal product of a fifth worker is 3 yards of fabric per week.
B. The marginal product of a fifth worker is 9 yards of fabric per week.
C. The marginal product of a fifth worker is zero.
D. The average product of labor would be 3 yards of fabric when a fifth worker is hired.

If the factory employs 5 workers then which of the following statements is true?
A. The average product of workers is 9 yards of fabric per week.
B. The average product of workers is 15 yards of fabric per week.
C. The marginal product of workers is 9 yards of fabric per week.
D. The marginal product of workers is zero.

A local county in South Carolina is attempting to decide whether to improve the water quality of a nearby lake. An environmental economist consulting for the county is attempting to perform a cost-benefit analysis to determine whether improving the water quality would be a “good” thing. List at least three benefits and three costs that the economist should attempt to include or discuss in their analysis. Explain why each would be a cost or benefit and how we might attempt to measure each.

Countries often implement various trade restrictions in international markets to protect their domestic economies. Suppose a trading partner of the United States imposes a tariff on our goods. What would we expect to happen in the market to measures like prices, quantities of goods exchanged, exchange rates, employment and/or welfare? Can you suggest an alternative policy that might improve the foreign country’s economy without resorting to a tariff?

write and essay/ research paper about unemployment and inflation. How they are related etc...
requirement 2 pages

Outline and explain two basic motivations for government intervention in the economy.

Question 2: Explain how inflation can redistribute income. Why does an unexpected rise in the inflation rate make workers and lenders worse off? Who is made better off? Why does correctly anticipated inflation does not have these distributional effects?

You own goods A and B. You are considering increasing price of good A by 10%. Here is the information you have

Pa = 20

Qa = 1000

For each $1 increase in Pa, Qa will decrease by 100.

Pb = 12

Qb = 750

For each $1 increase in Pa, Qb will increase by 100.

(The point of this exercise is to have you do everything the long way then use the delta r formula so you can see the difference)

a . What is Total revenue of A before the price change?

b. What is total revenue of A after the price change?

c . What is Total revenue of B before the price change?

d. What is total revenue of B after the price change?

e. What is the change of revenue for A after the price changes?

f. What is the change or revenue for B after the price changes?

g. What is change in total revenue for both goods after price changes?

h. What is the own price elasticity for good A?

i. What is the cross price elasticity of A and B?

j. Calculate the change of revenue using the formula ∆ r =[ Rx (1 + E_Qx,Px) + Ry(E_Qy,Px)]%∆P_x.

k. Explain why the two methods have different answers.

l. To calculate the change in total revenue from the price change, which method do you prefer? Doing parts a-g or doing part h-j? Briefly explain.

Only h-l

Select a specific real-world firm or market and discuss which model of market structure you think would be most appropriate to describe that market.

(ie. Perfect competition, monopolistic competition, oligopoly, monopoly.)

Real world markets never exactly meet the assumptions of the models, so you can also talk about what aspects of the real-world market may not fit the model what aspects are not well described by the model selected.

You might want to consider, if relevant in your case, factors such as: the nature of the product, factors about the production such as whether or not there are likely to be economies of scale, the number of competitors, the degree of market power, how firms compete, and outcomes such as prices, mark ups, profits and firm entry/exit.

Which of the following would not be included in United States GDP?
A. The wages and salaries of North Carolina State government workers.
B. An imported computer laser printer manufactured in Singapore and purchased by a
Virginia mail order company.
C. A Dell computer manufactured in the United States and exported to Italy for use by
an Italian college student.
D. Sale of 1000 shares of IBM stock on the New York Stock Exchange valued at the
current market price per share.
E. Both B and D.

Which of the following is most likely to decline in a recession?
A. Nominal GDP
B. Real GDP.
C. Potential real GDP
D. The natural rate of unemployment.
E. All of the above

Nominal GDP this year is $12 trillion. If personal consumption expenditures are $8
trillion, government purchases are $3 trillion, and gross private domestic
investment is $2 trillion. Then it follows that
A. net exports are $2 trillion.
B. imports exceed exports by $1 trillion.
C. exports exceed imports by $1 trillion.
D. net exports are zero

The current unemployment rate is 6 percent. If the natural rate of unemployment is
5.5 percent, then
A. the economy is at full employment.
B. there is cyclical unemployment equal to 0.5 percent of the labor force.
C. there is frictional and structural unemployment equal to 0.5 percent of the labor
force.
D. there is cyclical unemployment equal to 5 percent of the labor force.

Which of the following groups will have their real income reduced if inflation is
greater than anticipated?
A. Borrowers who incurred debts at the beginning of the year at a nominal interest rate
based on the anticipated rate of inflation.
B. Workers whose wages were set at the beginning of the year based on the
anticipated rate of inflation.
C. Social Security pension recipients whose pensions are adjusted each year
according to the actual rate of inflation.
D. Employers who signed contracts granting workers raises for a one year period at
the beginning of the year based on the anticipated rate of inflation.

The Consumer Price Index (CPI) is currently 210 with a 1983 base year. Using the
CPI to deflate current dollars to base year dollars, the purchasing power of a
$60,000 annual income measured in base year dollars is
A. $28,571
B. $40,000
C. $60,000
D. $126,000

Report about the Rise and the Fall Nokia:(case study)

What are the opportunities for Economies of Scale and Economies of Scope for NOKIA during the RISE AND THE FALL of this company? Explain

At what level of output is profit maximized for a perfectly competitive firm? Why will the firm not produce this level of output? Explain

Suppose there are two goods in an economy, X and Y. Prices of these goods are Px and Py, respectively. The income of the only agent (consumer) in the economy is I. Using this information, answer the following questions:

a. Write down the budget constraint of the consumer. Draw it on a graph and label the critical points accordingly. Provide a verbal explanation of why all income is spent, mentioning the underlying assumption for this outcome.

b. Define substitution and income effects.

c. Assuming both goods are normal, suppose Px goes down due to an excess supply of good X, whereas Py is held constant. Drawing a graph, show the substitution and income effects as well as the total effect of this price reduction. Explain the change in demands for the goods using the relation, where MU represents marginal utility. Be precise in labeling your graph and its step-by step explanation.

MUx / Px = MUy / Py

d. Looking at the sign of the total effect, discuss the relation between the price of a normal good and its demand.

e. Now suppose X is an inferior good. How does your answer to part (c) change? Drawing a new graph, comment on the signs of the substitution and income effects.

f. What is Giffen paradox? Drawing a new graph, discuss it in terms of the magnitudes of the substitution and income effects. How is the demand for a Giffen good sloped? Why? Provide the necessary definitions and explain it using the signs and magnitudes of substitution and income effects.

1. Name of the product: Strabucks Frappucino Drinks
2. Question:  Target Market - Describe the target market using market dimension variables. These are segmentation variables such as demographic, psychographics, behavioral or geographic. Only two or three sentences to precisely describe the typical user using these variables.