Describe why oxygen consumption is an indirect measure of
metabolism. How do we measure oxygen consumption and internally
identify what fuel body is being used for exercise?
Why do we have to measure unemployment?
How and why minimum-wage laws cause unemployment in the
economy?
Is trade unions are good or bad for economy?
Comment “not all the adults are willing and able to work”
In terms of loss of jobs, which sector in Kuwait likely to be
affected most? Why?
1. A. What are the stock market indices? What do they measure?
How do we measure stock market’s overall performance? B. What are
the EAR and APR? What’s the difference? How to convert APR to EAR
under different frequencies of compounding? C. The relation between
interest rate and pricing of financial securities. D. What’s the
purpose of building investment portfolios? What’s the difference
between firm’s specific risk and market risk. Which one is
diversifiable? Which risk is systematic? Which one...
Risk is inevitable. How do we measure it? What can we do to
mitigate risk? How is inventory level a prospective risk? How are
accounts receivable a prospective risk
What are the similarities and differences between the utility
function (i.e., u(x)) in the expected utility theory and the value
function (i.e., v(x)) in the reference-dependent theory (i.e., the
prospect theory)?
1. What do the CPI and the PPI measure? Why do we need both of
these price indexes? Select three countries as your target (one of
them should be China), investigate the inflation rates of these
countries, and explain why they are different or not? You may use
diagram and chart in your answer.