Explain clearly the concept of price discrimination and how this possibility could cause a firm to engage in dumping in an export market (you will have to define dumping also). How is this behavior profitable for the firm? Does the importing country gain or lose welfare because of this dumping? Explain the process by which the United States (as the importer) decides whether to react with an anti-dumping tariff and whether this can raise domestic welfare. Why do many such cases get withdrawn before an actual tariff is imposed?

Blackwater Spring and Metal utilizes the same computerized spring-forming machinery in its U.S. and Malaysian plants. The first cost was $750,000 with S = $150,000 after n = 10 years. MACRS (Modified Accelerated Cost Recovery System) depreciation with n = 5 years is applied in the United States, and standard SL depreciation with n = 10 years is used by the Malaysian facility. If the equipment is sold after 6 years for $100,000, calculate the over-and underdepreciation amounts for each method.

According to the Small Business & Entrepreneurship Council, the growth in real total trade (exports plus imports) equaled 46 percent of the United States economic growth from 2000 to 2014, with real exports equaling 23 percent of growth over the period. International markets are increasingly important for the growth of U.S. small firms. How might today businesses attract and retain the very best employees around the world by adopting a global benefits strategy? Support your response through examples and evidence.

1) The velocity of circulation of money is the ratio of the real gross domestic product to the money supply.

True

False

2) When the FOMC sets a monetary policy, it first identifies its intermediate target and then works accordingly to achieve its ultimate goal.

True

False

3) The Fed can enhance liquidity in the U.S. economy by increasing the federal funds rate.

True

False

4) Prior to 1980, thrift institutions in the United States were allowed to offer checking accounts.

True

False

A. Using a labor market graph and a few well chosen sentences a situation in which athletes that immigrate to the United States may be discriminated against, despite earning a higher wage than those that are native born. (10 points)

B. Using a monopsony wage market model and a few well chosen sentences, explain my sports league are often willing to give major wage concessions to player’s unions in order to stop the entrance of a rival league into the market. (10 points)

The Trade Pacific Partner (TPP) was signed in New Zealand on 4^th February 2016 by a group of twelve countries. However, the United States of America (USA) withdrew from the pact in January 2017 and the remaining 11 member countries signed the newly Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans- Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) on 8^th March 2018.                            

1. State at least FIVE (5) goals of TPP.

2. Explain the benefits of TPP to Malaysia.

3. What is the plausible reason that the USA pull out of TPP?

There have been international financial crisis that have started in a given region, for example, the Asian contagion in 1997 caused unrest throughout the world’s financial markets and more recently the credit crisis in 2007 and 2008 started with the subprime mortgage market in the United States. Financial markets have become more integrated. How does this integration of financial markets cause the crises to spread across many countries? Use the 2008 subprime crisis to explain your response and provide examples.

Suppose you are tasked with explaining health care and the health care system in the united states to either:

a) a five year old
or
b) an anthropologist from another planet (who has access to a basic translator)

In either case, assume the individual knows that people get sick and that resources are scarce. Everything else you must explain simply. (3pts)

Your answer should include: Demand uncertainty, medical effectiveness uncertainty, Medicare, Medicaid, health insurance, hospital, doctor/provider. (7pts)

A person's blood alcohol (C2H5OH) level can be determined by titrating a sample of blood pressure with a potassium dichromat solution. The balanced equation is 16 H + 2Cr2O7 + C2H5OH= 4Cr + 2CO2 + 11H20 a) identify the reducing and oxidizing agents in this reaction. b) In the United States, a blood alcohol content > 0.08% is legal grounds for DUI or DWI charge if a person to titrate 29.00 g of plasma taken from a suspected drunk driver. What is this person's blood alcohol content and are they legally under the influence?

Determine if there is sufficient evidence to conclude the average amount of deaths is equal to 6000 in the United States and territories at the 0.10 level of significance.

1. Clearly state a null and alternative hypothesis
2. Give the value of the test statistic n=52
3. Report the P-Value
4. Clearly state your conclusion (Reject the Null or Fail to Reject the Null)
5. Explain what your conclusion means in context of the data.