Econ 471 Prof. Bee-Yan Roberts COVER PAGE TO PROBLEM SET #1 Printed Name: While you are permitted to work together as a group‚ you must write out the answers on your own (preferably in a separate room) without any help from those in the group. Problem sets with similar answers in any question will receive a grade of zero. I have not received any help and I have not provided help to other students in writing up the answers to this problem set. Signature:
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2.1 Perception: Definitions and Steps Step 1: Selecting Available Data Visual‚ Hearing (Auditory)‚ Smell (olfactory)‚ Touch (tactile) Stimulus examples on page 40 Physical or psychological factors on the bottom on page 40 Selective distortion-process of an individual’s expectations or fears deceiving the senses into reporting a false stimulus as real Step 2: Organizing Data Into a Usable Form Laws of Organization (Proximity‚ similarity‚ closure) Organization- discovering the recognizable
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Econ 100A–Midterm 2 solutions. Thursday‚ March 22‚ 2012. True/False (2 questions‚ 10 points total) Answer true or false and explain your answer. Your answer must fit in the space provided. T/F 1. (5 points) Suppose the government wants to place a tax on one of two goods‚ and suppose that supply is perfectly elastic for both goods. If the government wants to minimize the deadweight loss from a tax of a given size‚ it should put the tax on whichever good has worse substitutes. False: If
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University of Bahrain College of Business Administration Department of Economics and Finance Econ 341 - Monetary Economics Problem Set 6 (Chapter 22) AlShawa 1. According to the quantity theory of money‚ movements in the price level result * a. solely from changes in the quantity of money. b. primarily from changes in the quantity of money. c. partially from changes in the quantity of money. d. from changes in factors other than the quantity of money. 2. Because Keynes assumed
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Problem Set 1 Name: ___Christian Collins___________________________________________ Problem Set 1 is to be completed by 11:59 p.m. (ET) on Monday of Module/Week 2. 1. Based on the information provided for the market for video games‚ answer the following questions. PRICE Q DEMANDED Q SUPPLIED $50 5 9 $45 7 7 $40 9 5 $35 11 3 $30 13 1 a.) Draw and properly label the demand and supply graphs (this means you must label the axes and any lines you include on the graph)
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Ch. 26 1) List and explain the characteristics of the market structure known as monopolistic competition. 2) List some examples of monopolistically competitive firms. 3) Explain‚ graphically and verbally‚ how a firm in monopolistic competition derives its demand curve and marginal revenue (MR) curve. 4) Explain‚ graphically and verbally‚ how a firm in monopolistic competition determines what quantity to produce and what price to charge in order to maximize its profits. 5) Explain the impact
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1. Use only 1 or 2 sentences only to answer in terms of economic concepts. [10 points] a. What are automatic stabilizers? Automatic stabilizers are part of the fiscal policy and are built into the federal/state/local tax and transfer systems. They are put in place to stimulate aggregate demand in a recession without the need for action by policymakers. Corporate and personal income taxes are the best-known automatic stabilizers. For example: when the economy is in its growth stage‚ our progressive
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MGT 405 1. (10 pts) Because a government subsidy increases the number of mutually beneficial trades‚ it increases social welfare. Uncertain. A Subsidy is like an inverse tax. Consumers and producers benefit. The demand curve shifts down shifting the equilibrium‚ lower price for consumers and greater quantity sold for producers. Consumer surplus rises and producer surplus rises (area under the new price they receive). However the welfare is the sum of the new consumer surplus and the producer
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the decision making mechanism‚ social customs and political realities of society. The three central coordination problems any economy must solve are: 1. What and How much to produce 2. How to produce it 3. For whom to produce it Economist find that individuals want more than is available‚ given how much their willing to work. That means that in our economy there is a problem of scarcity. Scarcity: The goods available are too few to satisfy individual’s desires. Scarcity has two elements;
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Chapter 12 National Income Accounting and the Balance of Payments National Income Accounts Gross National Product is the value of all final goods and services produced by its factors of production and sold on the mkt in a given time period. It can be divided into: 1. consumption 2. investment 3. govn’t purchase 4. current account balance Capital Depreciation and National Transfers GNP has to be equal to national income. In order for this to hold we need to make some adjustments
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