Discussion Questions Week One Economics 365 TEAM C- WEEK ONE DISCUSSION QUESTIONS 1. What is economics? What role does economics play in your personal and organizational decisions? Provide an example of the role of economics in decision making. (Ana K Gonzalez) * According to "What Is Economics? A Definition Of Economics" (2012): * Economics is the study of the production and consumption of goods and the transfer of wealth to produce and obtain those goods. Economics explains how
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CLCIK TO DOWNLOAD ECO 550 Midterm Exam 1. Income tax payments are an example of ____. 2. The moral hazard in team production arises from 3. Which of the following will increase (V0)‚ the shareholder wealth maximization model of the firm: V0∙(shares outstanding) = Σ∞t=1 (π t ) / (1+ke)t + Real Option Value. 4. In the shareholder wealth maximization model‚ the value of a firm’s stock is equal to the present value of all expected future ____ discounted at the stockholders’ required rate
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Cheryl Thomas Strayer University Assignment 3/Long-Term Investment Decisions Dr. Camille Castorina August 30‚ 2014 One of the most important long term decisions for any business relates to investment. Investment is the purchase or creation of assets with the objective of making gains in the future. Typically investment involves using financial resources to purchase a machine/building or other asset‚ which will then yield returns to an organization over a period of time. Planning
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Learning Team Deliverable Week 4 Learning Team Deliverable TA-4D) Recessions seem to show up every so often and create economic hardship. One might think that macroeconomic policymakers could tame the business cycle and implement policies that would end recessions. Are recessions a necessary fact of macroeconomic life? If not‚ what would it take to eliminate them? If they are unavoidable‚ what types of business can benefit from them? How would a recession affect your
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Section – I 1 Citrus Speculation and Forecasting‚ Inc‚ has been hired by a private consortium of orange growers to predict what will happen to the price and output of oranges under the conditions below. What are your predictions? For each part‚ sketch a graph showing the appropriate demand and supply analysis. a) A major freeze destroys a large number of the orange trees in Florida. b) The American Medical Association announces that drinking orange juice can reduce the risk
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Part 2. Total 50 marks ( 10 marks each). 1. Explain why you would be more or less willing to buy gold under the following circumstances: a. Gold again becomes acceptable as a medium of exchange. (2 marks) b. Prices in the gold market become more volatile. (2 marks) c. You expect inflation to rise‚ and gold prices tend to move with the aggregate price level. (3 marks) d. You expect interest rates to rise. (3 marks) Outline of solutions: (a) More‚ because it has become more liquid;
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Here are my musings for chapter 3.This chapter consists of applications – some of which are complex – of the labour supply model to social insurance programs. The central theme of this chapter is the central trade-off that any social insurance program faces between the goal of alleviating economic hardship for those who suffer income losses on one hand and the goal of maintaining reasonably strong incentives to work. In a nutshell‚ these very important programs – which are considered to
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The Differences Between Macro & Micro Economics . Microeconomics • Microeconomics studies business decisions made on an individual level. A small business owner‚ for example‚ must consider all sorts of financial decisions in order to keep a business afloat and operating‚ such as the allocation of resources‚ and must follow the tax and state regulations created by the government. Price levels must also be determined with the help of supply and demand. A business owner must thus need to know how
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1 Module 1 FOREIGN TRADE MULTIPLIER Unit Structure : 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Objectives Introduction of Foreign Trade Multiplier Income determination in a multiplier in a closed economy Foreign Trade multiplier in an open economy Foreign Repercussion Introduction of the concepts External and Internal balance and Role of Monetary and Fiscal Policy 1.6 Expenditure Changing policies 1.7 Expenditure Switching policy 1.8 Introduction of Policy Mix 1.9 A case for Monetary and Fiscal Policy Mix 1.10
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1. An article in Marketing News argued that the level of significance used when comparing two products is often too low – that is‚ sometimes you should be using an α value greater than 0.05. Specifically‚ the article recounted testing the proportion of potential customers with a preference for product 1 over product 2. The null hypothesis was that the population proportion of potential customers preferring product 1 was 0.50 and the alternative hypothesis was that it was not equal to 0.50. the p-value
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