Key terms: Definition: Opportunity cost The cost of missing out on the next best alternative. Economic goods Goods that are scarce and therefore have an opportunity cost. Free goods Goods that have no opportunity cost‚ e.g. Air Factor market The market for the factors of production that make other goods and services such as labour or raw materials. Free market economy One in which there is very limited government involvement in providing goods and services. Division of labour
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ECO 405 Week 8‚ Chapter 11: Economic Growth |Slide # |Topic |Narration | |1 |Intro |Welcome to Economic Problems and Issues. In this lesson‚ we will discuss Economic Growth. | | | |Please go to the next slide. | |2 |Objectives |Upon completion
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for Goodman‚ Landry‚ and the Market Index. (Hint: Use the sample standard deviation formula given in the chapter‚ which corresponds to the STDEV function in Excel.) Standard Deviation Goodman Landry Market Index 0.314404 0.097073 0.137937352 3. Estimate Goodman’s and Landry’s betas as the slopes of regression lines with stock return on the vertical axis (y-axis) and market return on the horizontal axis (x-axis). (Hint: Use Excel’s SLOPE function.) Are these betas consistent with your graph
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Homework #3: Question 1. Problem and Application 4 on page 285. Please work on a‚ b‚ c‚ d‚ and e only. That is‚ ignore f. When you reconstruct the table in your work‚ please lower the space for Marginal Product and Marginal Cost by a half step. In other words‚ the first entries of Marginal Product and Marginal Cost should be aligned with the second entries of other columns. (50 points) Table of Costs: Worker Output Marginal Product Total Cost Average Total Cost Marginal Cost 0 0 --
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Economic problems. The economic problem‚ sometimes called the basic‚ central or fundamental economic problem‚ is one of the fundamental economic theories in the operation of any economy. It asserts that there is scarcity‚ or that the finite resources available are insufficient to satisfy all human wants and needs. The problem then becomes how to determine what is to be produced and how the factors of production (such as capital and labor) are to be allocated. Economics revolves around methods and
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CHAPTER 4 INDIVIDUAL AND MARKET DEMAND EXERCISES 1. An individual sets aside a certain amount of his income per month to spend on his two hobbies‚ collecting wine and collecting books. Given the information below‚ illustrate both the price-consumption curve associated with changes in the price of wine and the demand curve for wine. |Price |Price |Quantity |Quantity |Budget | |Wine |Book |Wine |Book
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|23 | |3 |30 | |4 |35 | |5 |38 | |6 |40.5 | PRICE = $2.00 per box |Bales of hay |Total Utility (Utils) | |1 |10 | |2 |22 | |3 |36
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Department of Economics University of California‚ Berkeley Fall 2012 Econ 182 Solutions Problem Set 8 Problem 1. Exchange Rates and International Transmission a. Suppose that the US engages in a monetary expansion. Since exchange rate is pegged to the US dollar‚ country X’s monetary authorities are forced to expand their money supply as well (recall that i = i* under FixER). Interest rates fall in country X‚ output expands‚ and of course the exchange rate remains unchanged. On the AA-DD diagram
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the supply curve is greater than the shift in the demand curve and the equilibrium price rises. If demand decreases more than the supply‚ the shift in the demand curve is greater than the shift in the supply curve and the equilibrium price falls. 3. What is the effect on the equilibrium in the orange juice market if orange juice becomes more popular and a cheaper robot is used to pick oranges? Because orange juice becomes more popular‚ demand increases and the demand curve for orange juice shifts
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Problem Set 2 – Strategy I 1. Why do price misreads (or more generally the inability to observe prices with precision) encourage firms to lower prices? [Note: assume all prices are subject to misreads.] Misreads occur when a firm are competing with no information about competitors and assumes that competitors have taken an uncooperative pricing action when in fact they are cooperative. This assumption makes the firm react in an uncooperative manner‚ lowering the price. This asymmetric information
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