Suppose John grows $1 million in peanuts and sells them to
Snappy's which uses them to...
Suppose John grows $1 million in peanuts and sells them to
Snappy's which uses them to make $5 million in peanut butter. These
two actions contribute _____ to GDP.
Great Oaks Farm grows organic vegetables and sells them to local
restaurants after processing. The farm’s leading product is
Salad-in-a-Bag, which is a mixture of organic green salad
ingredients prepared and ready to serve. The company sells a large
bag to restaurants for $25. It calculates the variable cost per bag
at $19 (including $1 for local delivery), and the average total
cost per bag is $22. Because the vegetables are perishable and
Great Oaks Farm is experiencing a large...
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Great Oaks Farm grows organic vegetables and sells them to local
restaurants after processing. The farm’s leading product is
Salad-in-a-Bag, which is a mixture of organic green salad
ingredients prepared and ready to serve. The company sells a large
bag to restaurants for $25. It calculates the variable cost per bag
at $19 (including $1 for local delivery), and the average total
cost per bag is $22. Because the vegetables are perishable and
Great Oaks Farm is experiencing...
1. Pete grows wheat and sells it to Roger for $2. Then Roger
turns it into flour and sells it to John for $3. John takes the
flour and also some sugar which he bought for $1 and eggs that he
bought for $1.50 and bakes a cake which he sells to Keith for $10.
Keith eats the cake and then drives his car into a swimming pool
for some reason. How much is added to nominal GDP here?
2....
1.
United Snack Company sells 50-pound bags of peanuts to
university dormitories for $38 a bag. The fixed costs of this
operation are $390,000, while the variable costs of peanuts are
$0.24 per pound.
a. What is the break-even point in bags?
b. Calculate the profit or loss (EBIT) on 6,000
bags and on 19,000 bags.
Bags
Degree of Financial Leverage
6,000
19,000
c. What is the degree of operating leverage at
18,000 bags and at 23,000 bags?...
Consider a closed economy in which the population grows at the
rate of 1% per year. The per-worker production function is y = 6 *
((K)^0.5), where y is output per worker and k is capital per
worker. The depreciation rate of capital d is 14% per year.
a. Households consume 90% of income and save the remaining 10%
of income. There is no government. What are the steady-state values
of capital per worker, output per worker, consumption per worker,...
1. Suppose the velocity of money is constant. Real GDP grows by
6 percent per year, the money stock grows by 10 percent per year
and the real interest rate is 5 percent. According the information
above the nominal interest rate is ____________ percent.
a. 1
b. 9
c. 16
d. 4
e. 11
2. The natural rate of unemployment may be reduced by
a.
increase in minimum wages.
b.
efficiency wages.
c.
generous unemployment insurance.
d.
public retraining...
4. Suppose that affiliate A produces 150,000
handbags for $20 apiece and sells them to affiliate B. Affiliate B,
in turn, sells these handbags for $50 apiece to an unrelated
customer. The tax rate in A’s country is 30% and B’s country is
40%.
A’s costs are $3,000,000 and a typical manufacturer mark-up is
50%. B’s selling price is $7,500,000 to unrelated customers, B’s
incremental costs are $2,000,000. Typical distributor fees are 20%
times their local costs. Independent parties sell...
Suppose that you have $1 million and the following two
opportunities from which to construct a portfolio:
Risk-free asset earning 10% per year.
Risky asset with expected return of 25% per year and standard
deviation of 33%.
If you construct a portfolio with a standard deviation of 26%,
what is its expected rate of return?
Suppose there are 100 million people in the labor force of which
6 million are unemployed. During the next month, 200,000 people
lose their jobs and 300,000 find jobs. The new total number of
employed people is ____.
A.
100.3 million
B.
94.1 million
C.
94.3 million
D.
100.1 million
1. Suppose a company produces some steel, which it sells to a
car company for $5,000. The car company uses the steel to produce a
car, which it sells for $15,000. Assuming that the car is a final
good, these two transactions together will contribute how much to
GDP for the current period?
$5,000
$20,000
$15,000
$10,000
2. Suppose that an Egyptian company opens a factory that
produces televisions (with televisions being a final good) located
in Spain. Any production...