International Trade Problem Set 1 Due time: 5pm September 26‚ 2014 (Friday) Answer all of the following questions. While I encourage you to discuss with your classmates‚ you have to write up your own script. Please hand it in to your TA (Miss Jiuqi Zhao) by the due time via her pageon box on the 9th ‡oor of K.K. Leung Building. 1. Suppose that Home and Foreign have the marginal product of labor shown below. Home Foreign Baseball bats 1/6 1 tennis rackets 1/2 1/4 (a) What is the opportunity cost of
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ECN171 Economy of East Asia Problem Set 1 The data for this problem set is posted on SmartSite in the Resources folder. It was downloaded from the Penn World Tables version 7.1‚ which is publicly available at https://pwt.sas.upenn.edu/php_site/pwt_index.php . 1. Graph the GDP [per capita] of the East Asian countries in PS1_data.xls on one graph. Which East Asian country is the largest [richest] in 1960? In 2010? When did the switch occur? 2. Calculate the growth rates (log difference‚ using natural
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CHEMICAL REACTION (SYNTHESIS REACTION‚ DECOMPOSITION AND SINGLE REAPLACEMENT REACTION) Purpose : 1. To identify the chemical changes 2. To observe the effect of temperature of a chemical reaction. Theoritical basic : A chemical reaction is a process that leads to the transformation of one set of chemical substances to another. Classically‚ chemical reactions encompass changes that strictly involve the motion of electrons in the forming and breaking of chemical bonds between
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Bilal Al- Qureshi‚ Said Business School‚ University of Oxford 2010 American Chemical Corporation HBS Case Number: 9-290-102 Executive Summary The American Chemical Corporation (AMC) is a large‚ diversified chemical producer. In 1979‚ AMC was forced to issue a tender to sell a Sodium Chlorate plant‚ near Collinsville‚ Alabama. Dixon‚ a specialty chemicals company‚ was willing to purchase the aforementioned plant for $12m with the option to invest a further $2.25m on laminate technology. The
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Airline Ticket Prices Jodie L. Hebner Grantham University An airline’s ticket price is determined by several factors to include time of day a consumer wishes to travel‚ day of the week such as Tuesday’s and Thursday’s are usually the most affordable days to travel‚ popular versus non-popular destinations‚ first class costs more than general class‚ cost of fuel‚ competition from other airlines‚ special factors such as discounts for military‚ government or corporate personnel‚ (How Stuff Works‚
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Macroeconomics LP4 Assignment A price ceiling is a sort of price control governments have imposed to control the price when the price is higher than it should be. Sellers try to sell more of their product because the price is high. But buyers do not want to buy at that price. Price ceilings commonly lead to shortages and are typically associated with long lines. When a new toy or video game comes out there is usually some kind of wait‚ whether in line or on a waiting list. When “tickle me
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Traveling Mindset vs. Home Mindset Does having a closed mind set benefit more than a open mind set? Being open minded is having a mind embarks on new ideas‚ exploring and arguments. Being close minded is not open to new ideas and exploring. What does open minded and close minded have to do with having a traveling mind set and home mind set? Having a traveling mind set‚ we carry with us no rigid ideas about what is interesting. A home mind set is being settled in expectations‚ and assured that we have
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farmer’s field and grows pineapples. Tom hires students to pick and pack the pineapples. The following table sets out Tom’s total product schedule. Labor (students) Total Products (pineapples/per day) 0 0 1 100 2 220 3 300 4 360 5 400 6 420 7 430 1. Calculate the marginal product of the third student; 2. Calculate the average product of three students; 3. Over what numbers of students does marginal product increase? 4. When marginal product increases‚ compare average
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Problem Set 1 Complete all questions listed below. Clearly label your answers. 1. The receipts and year of release of the five movies with the largest nominal box office revenues‚ along with the CPI data of each year are presented below. Assuming that the receipts for each of the movies were derived during their year of release‚ convert the receipts for each to real dollars for the year 2010 (2010 CPI 230.1). Put the movies in order from largest to smallest real box office receipts and show
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– Jan/Feb PRICES AND MARKETS Core Course PUSHAN DUTT Date: 5th March‚ 2007 Time: 9am – 12noon Duration of the exam: 3 hours Closed-book exam (two A4 sheets allowed). You may NOT use a computer or a PDA Your answers must be in English Write all answers in a separate booklet‚ not on this question paper. At the end of the exam you can find blank pages as “scratch paper” for calculations. This exam is worth 200 points (you get an endowment of 5 points for showing up) and you have 3 hours to complete
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