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CLICK TO DOWNLOAD ECO 550 Midterm Exam 1. A change in the level of an economic activity is desirable and should be undertaken as long as the marginal benefits exceed the ____. 2. The level of an economic activity should be increased to the point where the ____ is zero. 3. The ____ is the ratio of ____ to the ____. 4. The standard deviation is appropriate to compare the risk between two investments only if 5. The approximate probability of a value occurring that is greater than one
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CLICK TO DOWNLOAD ECO 550 Midterm Quiz This midterm exam consist of 32 multiple choice questions and covers the material in Chapters 1 through 8. There are four questions from each chapter. 1). The flat-screen plasma TVs are selling extremely well. The originators of this technology are earning higher profits. What theory of profit best reflects the performance of the plasma screen makers? 2). To reduce Agency Problems‚ executive compensation should be designed to: 3). Economic profit is defined
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CLICK TO DOWNLOAD ECO 550 Final Exam 1. The degree of operating leverage is equal to the ____ change in ____ divided by the ____ change in ____. 2. In the linear breakeven model‚ the difference between selling price per unit and variable cost per unit is referred to as: 3). Break-even analysis usually assumes all of the following except: 4).The short-run cost function is: 5). In the short-run for a purely competitive market‚ a manufacturer will stop production when: 6). In the long-run‚ firms
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CLCIK TO DOWNLOAD ECO 550 Midterm Exam 1. Possible goals of Not-For-Profit (NFP) enterprises include all of the following EXCEPT: 2. The primary objective of a for-profit firm is to ___________. 3. Income tax payments are an example of ____. 4. Economic profit is defined as the difference between revenue and ____. 5. A change in the level of an economic activity is desirable and should be undertaken as long as the marginal benefits exceed the ____. 6. The standard deviation
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CLICK TO DOWNLOAD ECO 550 Midterm Exam 1. Which of the following barometric indicators would be the most helpful for forecasting future sales for an industry? 2. The use of quarterly data to develop the forecasting model Yt = a +bYt−1 is an example of which forecasting technique? 3. Consumer expenditure plans is an example of a forecasting method. Which of the general categories best described this example? 4. The type of economic indicator that can best be used for business forecasting
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DOWNLOAD ECO 550 FINAL EXAM 1. The Prisoner’s Dilemma involves two spies who are held in separate soundproof rooms. But even if the two spies could communicate‚ what makes it difficult for them to achieve the cooperative solution (both not confessing)? 2. A key to analyzing subgame perfect equilibrium strategy in sequential games is 3. In making promises that are not guaranteed by third parties and in imposing penalties that are not enforced by third parties‚ all of the following are credibility-enhancing
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CLICK TO DOWNLOAD ECO 550 Midterm Exam 1) For studying demand relationships for a proposed new product that no one has ever used before‚ what would be the best method to use? 2) The forecasting technique which attempts to forecast short-run changes and makes use of economic indicators known as leading‚ coincident or lagging indicators is known as: 3) If two alternative economic models are offered‚ other things equal‚ we would 4) Smoothing techniques are a form of ____ techniques which
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HERE TO DOWNLOAD ECO 550 FINAL EXAM 1. Which of the following could be a linear programming objective function? 2. Which of the following could not be a linear programming problem constraint? 3. Types of integer programming models are _____________. 4. The production manager for Beer etc. produces 2 kinds of beer: light (L) and dark (D). Two resources used to produce beer are malt and wheat. He can obtain at most 4800 oz of malt per week and at most 3200 oz of wheat per week respectively. Each
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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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