1. Explain how a firm may transition from the short-run production decision to the long-run production decision. In your explanation, us applicable graphs (6%) to illustrate short-run and long-run laws in operation. (10%)

Collect annual Data on the following series: real GDP, Government Expenditure, Investment, and Population for 30 years from an economy of Norway in "Current US dollar, all units and year must be same ' in excel file

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/

Use this diagram for the questions that follow. Assume a trading authority of around US$1,000,000 or around HK$ 8,000,000.

Market DATA= Spot rate(US$/HK$): 0.1289

180-day forward: 0.1302

180-day US$ LIBOR: 3.00%

180-day HK$ HIBOR: 1.50%

What is the HK$ forward premium (+) or discount (-)? Use the standard number of digits in expressing the interst rate as in "7.89%

What is the US$ - HK$ interest rate differential?

During the investment horizon of 180 days you would be an owner of (US$ or HK$)

During the investment horizon of 180 days you would be an the borrower of ________. Express your answer in terms of US$ or HK$ that you would be borrowing.

At the end of the investment period you would owe, (US$ or HK$)

At the end of the investment period you would own _______ . Express your numerical answer in terms of the currency, US$ or HK$, that you would own.

At the end of the investment period, after you paid off your loan, you would have a profit of _______. Express your answer in terms of either US$ or HK$.

Is my writing for this email correct?

I mean academy and grammar. (you can edit and add any sentence)

Dear Prof. Joseph,

I hope you are doing well.

As you know that the circumstances of the Corona pandemic caused the borders to close and the suspension of international flights, which led to my delay in coming to my mission headquarters in Britain, in addition to that the University of Manchester has been largely closed to students since March 2020. I need a letter from you indicating that I am in constant contact with you during The Coronavirus pandemic with regard to research topics and that we have started albeit in a small way, to develop initial plans for a PhD research project because I am facing an obstacle and questions why I have not started the PhD program yet and this will really help me clarify that, in addition to speeding up the procedures for opening a new scholarship file by my sponsor and then Final financial guarantee application and submit it to the university.

I hope you will understand my situation and help me with that.

Best regards

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Matt and Meg Comer are married. They do not have any children. Matt works as a history professor at a local university and earns a salary of $64,000. Meg works part-time at the same university. She earns $21,000 a year. The couple does not itemize deductions. Other than salary, the Comers’ only other source of income is from the disposition of various capital assets (mostly stocks). Assume they file a joint return. (Use the tax rate schedules.) (Round final answers to the nearest whole dollar amount.)

A. What is the Comers’ tax liability for 2017 if they report the following capital gains and losses for the year?

The average exam score for students enrolled in statistics classes at Indiana University Northwest is 80 and grades are normally distributed. A professor decides to select a random sample of 25 students from his CJ statistics class to see how CJ students compare to the student body in terms of exam performance. The average exam score of this sample is 78 with a variance equal to 100. Are the stats exam scores of the students in the CJ class significantly different when compared to the average university student at IUN?

a. Reach a statistical conclusion

b. Interpret your results

c. What would be your statistical conclusion and interpretation if the size of the selected sample would be 100?

2. Using the information provided at Q1, calculate the 95% confidence interval of the mean stats exam scores for the population of CJ students enrolled at IUN. [sample size = 25]

a. Interpret the 95%CI

b. Test the hypothesis that the CJ students’ population mean at stats exam is 80. Do you reject or fail to reject the null hypothesis? Justify your conclusion.

This question is more complicated than it seems. You would think that with more time, more leisure, and more luxuries, that compared to our ancestors, we would have more time. In ancient societies like among those in the Roman Empire, leisure time was generated because the slave class did their work. Even a few generations ago, your great-grandma scrubbed clothes on a scrubbing board, cooked on a coal or wood burning stove. Now, we are able to push washing machine buttons, use microwaves, and even have food delivered to us in minutes. So, you would think we would have more time to do what we want? But do we? It seems unlikely.

Philosopher Peter Kreeft of Boston College contends that "we want to complexity our lives. We don't have to, but we want to. We want to be harried, hassled, and busy. Unconsciously, we want the very thing we complain about. For if we had leisure, we would look at ourselves and listen to our hearts and see the gaping hole in our hearts and be terrified, because that hole is so big that nothing but God can fill it."

Kreeft claims:

"So run around like conscientious little bugs, scare rabbits, dancing attendance on our machines, our slaves, and making them our masters. We think we want peace and silence and freedom and leisure, but deep down we know that this is unendurable to us, like a dark empty room without distraction where we would be forced to confront ourselves, the one person...whom we fear the most, yet need the most, and the only person...whom we are constantly trying to escape, yet the only person who we can never escape, to all eternity."

Kreeft continues, "If you are typically modern, your life is like a rich mansion with a terrifying hole right in the middle of the living-room floor. So you paper over the hole with a very busy wallpaper pattern to distract yourself. You find a rhinoceros in the middle of your house. The rhinoceros is wretchedness and death. How in the world can you hid a rhinoceros? Easy: cover it with a million mice. Multiply diversions."

Pascal puts it this way:

"If our condition were truly happy we should not need to divert ourselves from thinking about it."

That is why Pascal famously stated:

“All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.”

Kreeft goes on to say:

"Therefore the society or individual which has the most diversions and amusements is not the happiest but the unhappiest. Therefore our society is the unhappiest. All the social indicators bear out this conclusion: depression, divorce, suicide, drugs, violence--you name it. The point is simple: we never want to divert ourselves from happiness, only from unhappiness. If life felt like a holiday, we would not want holidays from it.

Later, Pascal puts it this way:

All our life passes in this way: we seek rest by struggling against certain obstacles, and once they are overcome, rest proves intolerable because of the boredom it produces. We must get away from it and crave excitement....Man is so unhappy that he would be bored even if he had no cause for boredom, by the very nature of his temperament, and he is so vain that, though he has a thousand and one basic reasons for being bored, the slightest thing, like pushing a ball with a billiard cue, will be enough to divert him."

Therefore, after reflecting upon these statements by Peter Kreeft and Blaise Pascal, do you think they are onto something? I mean, why are so occupied with business? Is it because, at some level, we are diverting ourselves from our state unhappiness? Is business a type of diversion from seeing how unhappy we actually are?

2. The managers of three different supermarkets in the US desire to test the effectiveness of a new store design on sales. The manager of supermarket A decides to let store directors choose on their own whether they judge appropriate to implement the new design. The manager of supermarket B randomly chooses stores to assign the new design. The manager of supermarket C randomly draws stores in each US State separately.

(a) State whether each of the three experimental designs is observational or experimental, providing an explanation. (7.5p)

(b) Which experimental design is implemented in each of the three studies? (7.5p)

(c) Which kind of bias will arise from design A? Why? (5p)

(d) Compare the quality of statistical results from Designs B and C.State which of the two prevails on your opinion and why. (5p)

China has recently retaliated to US tariffs on steel and aluminum and has imposed a wide range of tariffs on U.S agricultural export that are destined to China. These tariffs are expected to have a significant negative impact on the U.S. agriculture products.

If the U.S. Agricultural products, which are heavily subsidized by the US government are not exportable to China due the existing trade war, how does this affect:

1) the U.S. farmers

2) the American tax payer

3) short term food supply in America

4) long term food supply in America

Discuss each in detail.

5) Assuming that China seeks its food supply from Africa, do you think that China might get cheaper agricultural products from Africa and as a result, America, but not China will be on the losing side?

We have a lot of data and information. If you want to forecast something, find data for it from the library. Let us call this data Dependent variable . Also find data for variables,( let us call them Independent Variables) that influence dependent variables.

Your task is to find data for one dependent variable and more than one independent variables. The independent variables must be related to the dependent variable.

Using your data,  run the regression on Excel and comment on how good and robust is the relationship between the dependent variable and the independent variables.

Important: You must indicate the source of data.(failure to indicate this gets automatic zero).  Data should be original. No data from the text books or data that has been already used for regression may be used.