Economics Unit 2: How Markets Work Investigating Price Changes Portfolio Project Part 1: Chapter 6 Wall Street Journal Questions 1) Why are sports teams considering switching to a variable–pricing strategy for tickets? Sports teams are switching to a variable-pricing strategy for tickets so that they can get a higher profit on games with record attendance numbers. They feel the need to do so because the marginal costs‚ such as construction payment and players’ salaries‚ did not equal to the marginal
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Aggregate Demand and Supply Model Economic Advisement With a nominal GDP estimated at more than 15 trillion it is clearly the United States economy is one of the largest in the world. A person must have lived in a cave underground for the past several years to not know that the current state of the nation’s economy is in desperate need of improvement. Many academic institutions have thought about how the economy arrived at its current state and how can it be restored. Some would advocate not using
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Economic Growth Economic growth is defined as a long-term expansion of the productive potential of the economy. Sustained economic growth should lead higher real living standards and rising employment. Short term growth is measured by the annual % change in real GDP. Economic growth is an increase in real national output or an expansion of the economy’s long-run productive potential. It is measured by the percentage change in real GDP or GNP. Inevitably there are fluctuations in the rate of growth
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None of the above. Answer: C 4) Suppose the demand for Digital Video Recorders (DVRs) is given by Q=250 - .25p + 4pc‚ where Q is the quantity of DVRs demanded (in 1000s)‚ p is the price of a DVR‚ and pc is the price of cable television. How much does demand for DVRs change if the p rises by $40? A) drops by 10‚000 DVRs B) increases by 16‚000 DVRs C) drops by 2‚500 DVRs D) increases by 4‚000 DVRs Answer: A 5) Consider the demand function Qd = 150 - 2P. The effects of other determinants
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The economic policy of a government needs to be supportive of a country’s best interests. It may be argued that the main objective of a government is to promote sustained economic growth to improve and increase the nation’s prosperity (Nellis and Parker‚ 1996). This can only be achieved with structural policies used to enhance the long term economic performance and the creation of a stable macroeconomic environment that will encourage stable growth to take place. This requires management of both
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is defined as the process of determining the needs and wants of consumers and being able to deliver products that satisfy those needs and wants‚ through an exchange process. A demand is a want for which the consumer is prepared to pay a price. A want is anything or service the consumer desires or seeks. Wants become demands when backed by purchasing power. A need is anything the consumer feels to keep himself alive and healthy. A transaction consists of a value between two parties. Marketing is
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Increase in Demand (Tastes‚ Ads‚ and Preferences) New RedBull Energy Tea! RedBull Energy Drink is introducing a new line of drinks‚ including the new RedBull Energy Tea. Due to the new line‚ the demand for the product will increase from past history. As the demand increases‚ a shortage will occur because more people will have a higher demand for the new line of products. Since the high demands won’t be able to be met‚ we must raise the prices until the shortage disappears and the new equilibrium
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Economic Growth Economic growth is the percentage increase in real national output in a given time period or the increase in the productive potential of the economy. Countries grwo at different rates‚ this is partly due to the fact that they are at different stages of their economic cycle. The economic growth for the UK is at 0.2%. The main measure of output is gross domestic product (GDP). GDP is the total value of goods and services produced in an economy during one year. Economic growth
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regard to work-life balance were scaled and group differences were noted. Background Because work-life balance is a combination of interactions among different areas of one’s life‚ the advantages and disadvantages associated with that balance/imbalance can affect multiple levels of society. The disadvantages associated with
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discount rate of 5% and a dividend growth rate of 3%? Answer: P = $40/(0.05 - 0.03) = $40/0.02 = $2‚000 Topic 2: Supply and Demand 1) Suppose that the demand for oranges increase. Explain the long -run effects of the guiding function of price in this scenario. Answer: In the long run‚ the higher price of oranges will signal more firms to enter the orange market‚ as it will seem more profitable than some other markets. As firms enter‚ supply increases‚ causing the price to fall
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