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How can health care expenditures be viewed as similar to other investments in capital equipment and education (human capital)?
Why would the percentage that health care consumers pay out of pocket be an important determinant of how much care they receive?
If selling of kidneys were legalized, predict impact on market for organ transplants using supply and demand analysis. Why might the quantity supplied increase?
How about Mickey Mantle, a famous baseball player who battled alcoholism? Do these queries fall into the realm of normative or positive economic analysis?
Why do adverse selection mean that lunch insurance, which would pay for lunch if you choose to eat it, is never likely to be a commercial success?
How does insuring all the workers at a given firm tend to reduce adverse selection problems? How does requiring physical exams have a similar effect?
Starting from the situation in (a), what would happen to the labor force participation rate if 30 million people lost their jobs and all of them exited the labo
If 10 million new jobs were created in the country, and it attracted 20 million. What would the new labor force participation rate and new unemployment rate be?
Can you explain why some restaurants are highly profitable while other restaurants in the same general area are going out of business?
Suppose that half the restaurants in a city are closed so that the remaining eateries can operate. What cost might restaurant patrons incur as a result?
How does Starbucks differentiate its product? Why does Starbucks stay open until late at night but a donut or bagel shop might close at noon?
Why don't monopolistically competitive firms produce the same output in the long run as perfectly competitive firms, which face similar costs?
Do you think that these ads have an effect on your spending? These ads are expensive; do you think they are a waste from society's standpoint?
Suppose Farmer Smith from Kansas and Farmer Jones from Missouri agree to restrict. How likely do you think the Smith-Jones cartel is to succeed? Explain.
Explain how the joint profit-maximizing price of colluding firms under oligopoly is determined. How about output?
One of the world's most successful cartels has been the Central Selling Organization (CSO). What do you think will happen to CSO diamond advertising?
What is assumed about rival responses to price increases? Price decreases? What does that imply about anticipated elasticities of demand as a result?
Why would someone consider how broadly or narrowly the relevant market is considered to be so critical to results when HHI values are used to evaluate mergers?
What is the initial HHI? What will the HHI become if two firms merge? What will the HHI become if three firms merge?
What would the HHI be for an industry made up of one firm with 30 percent of the market, and 14 firms, each with 5 percent of the market?
Suppose your professor announces that each student in your large lecture class who receive highest score. Is it likely that everyone in the class will get an A?
Why might shirking on a team project in school be a dominant strategy, but not shirking on a team project at work?
What would happen to the firm's on-the-job training and workers' health insurance if the government mandated a minimum wage of $9 an hour?
Why Would owner of University Pizza Parlor hire another worker for $60 per day if that worker added 40 pizzas day and each pizza added $2 to University Pizza.
If all individuals have backward-bending labor supply curves, is the labor supply curve for a particular industry or occupation also backward bending?