Describe the key monetary and fiscal tools used by the government and RBA to control the demand of residential and commercial property. Illustrate with relevant examples and comment on the effectiveness of these tools.
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What are some different methods through which terrorists can utilize technology to perpetrate a mass attack? Is there a way to prevent this issue, or is technology ever evolving to the point that
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What is the “present value” of future returns and how does it relate to the “discount rate”?
How does the discount rate and present value calculation help to explain why young people are more likely to go to college than are older people?
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Nowadays, Marketing became a dynamic and strategic domain that all organizations, from different sectors, apply to their businesses. One of the characteristics of modern Marketing is the changing nature of customers and the shifts of their behaviour.
How the previous statement affects the Marketing activities considering the concept “Exchange”.
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The concept of economic “goods” is used to explain how different societal needs are met. Explain the concept and give examples that relate to infrastructure.
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Find a current event article about some topic from chapter 14. This current event must be no older than 2 months. Here's what to do:
1) find your article
2) under the discussion for chapter 14 post a short summary of your article and explain how it fits in chapter 14 (Chapter 14 is all about global marketing. This chapter goes over some of the strategies used to market your company on a global scale).
Be sure to include your link or article Title so students can go read the article.
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Why is it important that national statistics authorities
regularly monitor and change the basket of goods used to measure
the CPI?
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As an international observer, how convincing do you think is China's peaceful rise?
500 words please
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Suppose that the market demand for expensive steak dinners is given by:
Q = 1,000−10P,
so that the marginal revenue is:
MR = 100−0.2Q,
where Q is the number of steak dinners per day and P is the price of a dinner. The marginal cost and average total cost are both constant and equal to $40 per dinner.
Suppose that there is only one firm in the market.
Suppose that a second firm that produces identical steaks and has identical costs enters the market and acts according to the Cournot oligopoly model.
The equilibrium price is?
The total equilibrium quantity is how many dinners?
Each firm's economic profit is?
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How would the stock exchange co-operate with other associations/stockbrokers/ market makers and Stock Exchanges in other countries, such that information is available to facilities for which it might likely be useful, to them or their clients
How would the exchange serve as a barometer of economic activity?
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1. Suppose that firm B makes rugs and that its fixed costs are 10,000 per month. The Average Variable cost is $100 per rug. Suppose that it get a price of $500 per rug. How many rugs does the firm have to sell to breakeven?
2.Draw a graph of a firm in perfect competition making a profit. Be sure to include the ATC,AVC, MC, and MR curves. Identify the quantity and price where they would maximize their profit. Show the area of the profit on the graph.
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a) What are the assumptions about the competitor's reaction to the price changes underlying the shattered demand curve of the oligopoly?
(b) Why is there a break in the oligarch's marginal revenue curve?
(c) How does the model of the sloping demand curve explain the rigidity of prices in the oligopoly?
(d) What are the disadvantages of this model?
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Do you think that the intellectual property laws on the network (worldwide network) will become less important??? Do you think that could be a problem??
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Suppose Congress decided to strip the Fed of its monetary policy independence and legislate interest rate changes.
How would you expect the policy choices to change? Which arrangement would most likely provide price stability?
The most likely result in the short run would be ______.
In the long run, the inflation rate would ______.
A.
an increase in money growth and falling interest rates;
rise and nominal interest rates would rise
B.
a decrease in money growth and rising interest rates;
fall and nominal interest rates would rise further
C.
an increase in money growth and falling interest rates;
fall and nominal interest rates would fall further
D.
a decrease in money growth and rising interest rates;
fall and nominal interest rates would fall
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