ECO 365 - Week 2 Discussion Question Answers DQ 1: Why is the demand of labor a derived demand? Explain the shape of the supply of labor curve. What is the relationship between productivity and the wages earned by an employee? What are some factors that determine the level of your income? The concept of derived demand occurs when the demand of product exists due to demand of another product. In this case‚ demand of a labor is a form of derived demand‚ because the amount of labor hired will
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Week One Discussion Question ECO 365 August 29‚2013 Week One Discussion Question What is economics? What role does economic play in your personal and organizational decisions? Provide an example of the role of economics in decision making? According to the background history of economics‚ economics is the study of how individuals and groups make decisions with limited resources as to fulfilling and satisfying ones needs‚ desire‚ and wants. Economics is also another term related to money
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Mergers and Joint Ventures Mark Bullock Yvette Castaneda ECO/365 11/03/2014 BIAGIO VULTAGGIO Mergers and Joint Ventures So off the top of your head‚ can you tell me what the differences between horizontal‚ vertical and conglomerate mergers? Do you also know how those three differ from a joint venture? I know that from personal experience I wouldn’t be able to off the top of my head. Let’s find out the differences between Horizontal Merger‚ Vertical Merger‚ and Conglomerate Merger. Then let’s see
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Supply and Demand Simulation ECO/365 November 26‚ 2012 The purpose of this paper is to discuss the Supply and Demand simulation from the student website. The idea is to identify two microeconomic and two macroeconomic principles present in the simulation and to explain why these principles are categorized as macro or microeconomic. The paper will also determine one shift of the supply curve and one shift of the demand curve from the simulation‚ as well as why these
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ECO 365 Week 5 Knowledge Check By www.StudentWhiz. com Copyright. All Rights Reserved by www.StudentWhiz.com ECO 365 Week 5 Knowledge Check Questions to ECO 365 Week 5 Knowledge Check are as follow: 1. 1 What problem do economists see with free trade areas such as NAFTA and the European Union? 2. They tend to lead to free trade rather than fair trade. 3. They can lead to regional trading blocs then restrict trade. Copyright. All Rights Reserved by 4. They lead to globalization. www.StudentWhiz
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Week Three Team Activites ECO/365 Team Activity One Learning Team B feels that there are government programs that do assist in their local towns to attract more business and bring in employees. Our local towns are developing programs to manage solid waste activities‚ tax incentives‚ and low interest loans that will increase business and bring in new employees and retain employees. Many cities and towns offer tax incentives for companies to relocate to their area. They offer these
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Eco 365 Week 4 Knowledge Check 1. What do economists mean when they say there is "market failure"? Correct answer: Free Markets yield results that economists do not consider socially optimal 2. If a market has no externalities‚ marginal private costsBottom of Form Correct Answer: equal marginal social costs 3. Economists generally call the effect of an agreement on others that is not taken into account by the parties making the agreement Correct Answer: an externality 4. The size performance
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Laws of Supply and Demand Derrick Laron Gibson ECO/365 August 7‚ 2014 University of Phoenix Laws of Supply and Demand Your author has been given the responsibility of completing the demand and supply simulation and then discussing his thoughts on several questions presented before him. These questions deal heavily on microeconomics and macroeconomics with regards to managing approximately 3000 two bedroom apartments and their rentals. Your author will now address the questions as they were
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Week 2 Assignment Topic | Answer | What factor caused movement along the supply curve in the simulation? | By decreasing the availability of the units to 28%‚ there was a surplus of 550 units available. | Please include the graph of a movement along the supply curve. Refer to our textbook please. | | What factor caused shift of the supply curve in the simulation? | The higher the price of the rental unit‚ the more the supply increased. This caused a movement along the supply line to curve
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Microeconomics and the Laws of Supply and Demand ECO/365 Microeconomics and the Laws of Supply and Demand The economy is divided into two categories microeconomics and macroeconomics. Microeconomics refers to the study of individual’s behavior within the economy. It concentrates on factors that influence the individual’s economic choices based on economic forces. The study of individual’s behavior when it comes to supply and demand is an important element to microeconomics. The law of demand says
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