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Is this because as you travel further your preferences shift or is it a price effect? As the wage rate rises what would you expect to happen to the mix of plane/train use?
Assets is higher from its industrial customers than from its residential customers. Is this a good reason? Hint: How can Edison determine its assets dedicated to the two classes of customers?
Emissions tax intended to reduce NOz from power plants and automobiles by a total of 15 million tons annually. What is the amount of the tax per ton of NOz emissions that it should set? Explain your
What is the gain in consumer's surplus for a Missioni fan who can get these sweaters at Target instead of at the Missioni? Draw the appropriate diagram to illustrate this gain, and also do the numer
What is the formula for the present value of an asset that pays $8 per year forever? Use the formula to calculate the present value of the asset.
Explain the budgetary challenges state governments would face if the economy were to go into a recession and the unemployment rate were to increase.
Which repair shop is likely to provide costly needless repairs to your car, and why? Which one may underprovide quality? In your answers, discuss the concepts of prospective and retrospective paymen
In your opinion, what are some of the greatest problems that businesses face in competing in our economy today? What would be your dream business if you could start one?
What is the formula for the present value of an asset that pays $8 per year every year for the next 10 years, and nothing thereafter? Use the formula to calculate the present value of this asset.
How much abatement should be undertaken by power plants and how much by automobiles? Explain the rule that generates this answer. What is the annual total cost of the emission abatement in part (b)?
The law clearly stipulates that the neighbors have the right to solar access. Is a Pareto-improving exchange possible? What do you expect the outcome to be?
Profits associated with polluting for Friedman Inc. are π = 40Q - 2Q2, where Q = pollution emitted. How much pollution do you expect Friedman to produce in the absence of pollution regulation?
Find the value of QC if the average value of PC = $9,000, N = 200 million, I = $10,000, PF = $8,000, PG = 80 cents, A = $200,000, and if PI = 1. Derive the equation for the demand curve for Chevrolets
Find their equilibria if they behave as Bertrand duopolists. If Beth behaves as a Stackelberg leader and Albert as a naive Cournot duopolist, find their outputs, profits and price.
Why was the Teamsters Union so opposed to allowing Mexican truckers to deliver their goods in the United States? As a consumer, do you agree with the Teamsters? Why or why not?
What does GDP measure? Are all expenditures on goods and services counted in GDP? Why is it important to know how to convert nominal GDP to real GDP?
Prior to that point, hospitals were paid on a retrospective basis. Provide the economic justification for such a move.
If the price of pork increases by 10 percent, by how much does the demand for beef change? (b) If the price of clothing increases by 10 percent, by how much does the demand for food change?
If there has been a ten percent increase in consumer income between two periods, what was the percentage change in the demand for foreign travel? For tobacco products? For Flour?
Hamburger Heaven uses the beef and buns to make 10,000 hamburgers with are sold for $5 each. How much do these transactions add to GDP?
Derive the total-revenue, average-revenue, and marginal-revenue schedules from Q = 0 to Q = 4 by 1s. Average revenue (AR) = total revenue (TR) / Q.
Given we have a monopoly due to a patent, determine the profit maximizing output level, the monopoly price, and economic profits(High price/high output model).
Mr. Wilson has asked you to calculate the total you will pay in income, Social Security, and Medicare taxes for a salary of $94,000. The current income tax table is as follows?
Explain the following statements. Changes in disposable income lead to movements along the consumption function.
Describe how, if at all, each of the following developments affects the break-even and actual investment lines in our basic diagram for the Solow model.