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QUESTION: Prescription drug prices in the United States are often substantially higher than in Canada, the United Kingdom and in India. Today, pharmacies in these countries fill millions of low-cost prescriptions through the mail to U.S. citizens. Given that the pharmaceutical industry cannot prevent the resale of these drugs,
A) are the industry’s effort to price-discriminate useless? Explain your answer
B) GRAPH the condition(s) of price-discrimination in this market structure. Remember to label curves and attach your graph to this response box or use the prompts below to attach your graph - submit graph
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Consider an economy that has a small number of large supermarkets and high barriers to entry to the supermarket industry. What type of market structure best describes this situation? Explain why.
What type of market structure would occur if the supermarkets combined into just one very large supermarket? What affect do you think this would have on prices and supermarket profits?
The following table reports key macroeconomic data for a particular economy.
Macroeconomic Data: 2019 |
|
Item |
Amount (millions of US dollars) |
Household Consumption |
896.2 |
Investment |
416.7 |
Government Consumption |
273.6 |
Government Investment |
13.6 |
Exports |
301.2 |
Imports |
265.9 |
Using the data in the table, calculate the value of GDP for 2019. (3 marks)
If the population of this country is 30 million, what is GDP per capita for this economy?
Explain what this measures.
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please discuss the role of technology in efficient utilization of these exhaustible resources which you might have come across in your own work experience. You could also discuss instances of firms taking steps to adopt renewable natural resources to cut down their reliance on exhaustible resources.
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1.The United States still participates in the gold standard since it eliminates exchange rate risk between the dollar and other foreign currencies.
True or False
2.The peso appreciated by 4% from the Eurozone point of view. What is the percentage appreciation/depreciation of the euro from the Mexican point of view? Enter your answer in decimal format and round any intermediate steps and for final answer to four decimals (EX: .XXXX).
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Suppose the federal government increases taxes by $750 million. By how much should GDP change if the MPC = 0.90? Use an AS/AD model to show this impact on the economy.
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Explain the significance of the 2001 crisis according to Öniş.
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Use the following information to work Problems (a) and (b). Show all your workings.
Sara’s income is $12 a week. The price of popcorn rises from $3 to $6 a bag, and the price of smoothie is unchanged at $3.
a ) How does the rise in the price of popcorn affect the relative price of a smoothie in terms of popcorn? What is the slope of Sara’s new budget line if it is drawn with smoothies on the X-axis?
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Do you think economic inequality explicitly or implicitly supports sexism and racism? If not, why not? If yes, why? Discuss
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QD= 8000-2PX+0.4I+2PY-4PZ
A - What are the intercepts and slope of your demand curve? price intercept and the quantity intercept and the slope
B - the price of good X is $100, what is the quantity demanded?
C - Now suppose the price of good Y rises to $150. What would happen to your demand curve? What are the price intercept, quantity intercept and slope?
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Select two countries (excluding the United States) and prepare a short report describing their basic Internet infrastructure. Are they public or commercial? How and where do they connect to backbones within the United States?
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write what you think are the key components of the culture in the United States that someone visiting from another country for business should be aware of.
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