Answer the following:

1. A bank makes a loan at a 7.0% nominal interest rate to a business. For each of the following scenarios, calculated the expected and actual real interest rates on the loan and state whether the bank is better-off, worse-off, or just as well-off as it expected.

1. Inflation was expected to be 4%, but actual inflation was 2%

2. Inflation was expected to be 3%, but actual inflation was 3%

3. Inflation was expected to be 2% and actual inflation was 4%

Caffeine Coffee Shops, Inc., sells franchises. Caffeine imposes on its franchisees standards of operation and personnel training methods. What is the potential pitfall to Caffeine if it exercises too much control over its franchisees?

Please explain in detail.

Find a job posting that interests you and is in line with your education and experience. This could be from a company website, a job posting site, in the newspaper, etc. Copy/paste or scan the job posting into a word document.

1. a. Define and describe a price discovery system in general.

b. Explain the two major types of price discovery systems. Provide at least 1 benefit and 1 disadvantage for each.

c. Define and describe a price-setting system in general.

d. Explain the three major types of price setting systems. Provide at least 1 benefit and 1 disadvantage of each.

e. Are these two systems independent of each other? Explain.

1. Suppose that a pay equity plan has just been put in place in your organization. The pay equity consulting firm did a job evaluation and assigned points to each of the male-dominated and female-dominated jobs. It then estimated the following male and female pay lines by regression, where Y denotes annual earnings, P denotes job evaluation points, and the subscripts m and f denote male and female respectively: Ym = 5000 + 100Pm Yf = 4000 + 80Pf Assume that you were an employee in a female-dominated job and that your job evaluation score was 200. a) What would your pay be before pay equity? b) What would it be after pay equity? What is the magnitude of your pay equity award? Show your answer with steps.

2. In the above example, assume the job evaluation score was 300 in the male-dominated jobs and 200 in the female dominated jobs.

a) what is the average pay in male-dominated and female-dominated jobs?

b) use a Oaxaca decomposition to decompose the average pay differential between male and female-dominated jobs into two components: a portion attributable to the differences in job evaluation points (valued according to male pay for such points) and a portion attributable to differences in pay for the same job evaluation points.

c) use that same decomposition method but this time evaluate the differences in job evaluation points according to the female pay for such points.

1. Go through each step of the process through which commodities flow in the marketing-procurement system. Pick a commodity as an example to illustrate each step.

2. List at least 2 advantaged and 2 disadvantages to each of the 4 major modes of transportation available to those in the agriculture industry. Also include an example of who would likely use each mode of transportation.

3. A. What are the two major reasons why agriculture products are stored?

b. What are some products on-farm and what are some benefits to this type of storage?

c. What are some products stored off-farm and what are some benefits to this type of storage?

Question 1 a) In the industry-lifecycle model, explain which stage the vaping industry is in and why? Explain the theory with case-specific examples to support your position.
b) In the industry-lifecycle model, explain which stage the general cigarette/tobacco industry is in and why? Explain the theory with case-specific examples to support your position.
c) Identify and discuss what can a company do to deal with declining sales in an industry?

Question 2 Is Juul a socially responsible company? Why or why not? Consider the four levels of corporate social responsibility (CSR) as part of your analysis with case examples.

Calculate the Y values corresponding to the X values given below. Find the critical values for X for the given polynomial by finding the X values among those given where the first derivative, dy/dx = 0 and/or X values where the second derivative, d­²y/dx² = 0. Be sure to indicate the sign (+ or -) of dy/dx and of d²y/dx² tabled values. Reference Power Point Lesson 13 as needed. Using the first and second derivative tests with the information you have calculated, determine which X value(s) represent maximums (MAX), which minimums (MIN) and which inflection points (INF). Label the qualifying X value as such. Attach work to convince me you carried out these calculations. An Excel spreadsheet can make calculations easier. If used, please attach the spreadsheet file and upload it with the rest of your work so that I can examine your formulas. The beginning (-.333) and ending X values (1.667) below are not to be considered critical values. In the space after the instructions for the “Bonus Opportunity” write the first derivative (dy/dx or Y’). Set this equal to zero and solve for the X values that make it equal to zero. Also write the second derivative (d²y/dx²or Y”)_. Set this equal to zero and solve for the X values that make it equal to zero. Complete the table by following the example on the cover of the Assignment 6 folder and/or in Power Point Lesson 13. View the scoring rubric to see how point values are awarded for correct calculations.

                                                Y = X³ -2X² +1

Twenty point Bonus Opportunity (creditable toward the maximum of 1000 points). Use the nine X values and their Y values you found above (which include the critical values) to help neatly draw the graph of this polynomial function over the range of X values given.   Alternatively use a spreadsheet to plot it. Your graph must be consistent with the tabled values above (which means, if you claim a certain X value is a maximum, then the graph of it should show this same value as a maximum. Similarly, if you claim an X value is an inflection point, then the graph of it should show it to be so. If the derivatives signal a X value as a minimum, the graph should show the same minimum, too. The point is, if you figure out how the derivatives SIGNAL which X values are critical points, the graph of the values should show them as such. Be certain to indicate these critical values with labels on the X axis of your graph.

1. Why did the American colonists win the American Revolution despite Great Britain’s superior military power?

2. What was the primary goal of the supporters of the US Constitution, and how did the framers seek to achieve it?

3. What were Hamilton’s goals as secretary of the treasury, and why did Jefferson oppose them?

4. How did the Industrial Revolution impact work?

5. How did the Marshall Trilogy shape Indian law?

**3-5 sentences for each question response.

Try to organize what we understand capital to be based on the different readings in the course. Try to explain why we keep inventing new forms of capital such as human capital, social capital, and cultural capital. (2-3 pages long)

There is a monopsonist employer in a labor market. Value of the monopsonist’s marginal product=240-0.5E. Labor supply facing this monopsonist is given by Es=2ws. w is in dollars per week and E is number of workers. Suppose that the monopsonist is a perfectly wage discriminating monopsonist.
a)   Draw the labor demand, labor supply curves and find the number of workers that the monopsonist will hire. What is worker surplus and deadweight loss? Explain.
b)   Now suppose that a minimum wage is set at $100 per week, how will this affect worker surplus and deadweight loss compared to part a? Explain.

. Initially, the economy was in its long-run equilibrium. Then, consumers’ preference for consumption fell; they became consuming less at any price level.

.a. Because of the consumption change, how would the curves of LRAS, SRAS and AD shift in the short-run: Leftward, Rightward, or No shift? How would the output and the price would change in the short-run: Decrease, Increase, or No change?

              SRAS:

              LRAS:

              AD:

              Output:

              Price:

.b. Consider the monetary policy response to maintain the full employment. Answer what changes and shifts the policy response would cause.

              Change in money supply: Decrease, Increase, No change

              Change in interest rate: Decrease, Increase, No change

              Shift of LRAS: Leftward, Rightward, No shift

              Shift of SRAS: Leftward, Rightward, No shift

              Shift of AD: Leftward, Rightward, No shift

Suppose the central bank increases discount rate. Use a graph of the money market to show what this does to the value of money?

If the Government increased its expenditures to 10%, identify one monetary policy adjustment that might be used by the Federa Reserve in response to the fiscal policy change.

i). identify the response

ii). Predict the policy's change's effect on interest rate (if None, write None)

iii). Explain why they would respond at such