marginal benefit of merit goods is greater than its private marginal benefit. Consumers in a free market only consider private benefits when purchasing and will therefore underconsume merit goods. This scenario can be shown in the diagram 1 below. As shown in diagram 1‚ the socially optimal output occurs at Q2‚ which is when SMB=SMC. However‚ the equilibrium in the free market occurs when D=S at Q1. Between Q1 and Q2‚ SMB>SMB. Hence‚ the under-consumption of Q2-Q1 results in welfare loss‚ which is equal
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Exercise 1 Question 1- Everyone’s Gasoline Problem. We are all familiar with fluctuating prices of gasoline at the pump. Why does this happen? Let’s take a closer look at what it takes to get a gallon of gas into your car. All gas companies follow the same basic formula. Crude Oil + Refining Process + Retail Sales/Distribution + Taxes = Gas Price The problem with this formula is not all of these components contribute equally. So let’s take a look at each of these components and what economic
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What is the quality of the study abstract for any of the studies and provide a rationale for your answer? The quality of the abstract for Imes‚ Dougherty‚ Pyper and Sullivan (2011) is poor. According to Groves‚ Burns and Gray (2013) an abstract should be a clear and concise summary of the study. This abstract contains less than 100 words and lacks recommended information by Groves et al. for quantitative studies to appropriately fulfill the clarity for a quality abstract. The intro does not have
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Assignment 1 1. Looking at SCORE variable‚ the skewness is -0.0511422 and excess kurtosis is 0.208336. For the normal distribution‚ skewness is zero. Since the skewness for SCORE variable is negative‚ this indicates that the distribution is skewed to the left (the long tail will be in the negative direction). For the normal distribution‚ kurtosis is three. So K-3 measures excess kurtosis. Since the excess kurtosis for SCORE variable is positive‚ the distribution is leptokurtic (it has thick tails
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Respond to ONE of the following: Question A Tell us about yourself so you can meet and greet other fellow Grantham University students within your course. Include what you believe to be your current knowledge level of this course topic and what you hope to learn before the course is over. Question B Discuss which function of a business’s operations you think is the most important. Why? Tell us about yourself so you can meet and greet other fellow Grantham University students within your
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LaTrisha Zackery Assignment 1 Complete the table (Table 1) below‚ then draw the following curves: Short-run average product (AP) curve; Short-run marginal product (MP) curve. Table showing the Average and Marginal product of labour for a hypothetical firm Amount of labour( units) | Amount of capital(No. of machines) | Output of parts(Q‚ hundreds of parts) | Average product (Q/L) | Marginal product(∆Q/∆L) | 0 | 5 | 0 | - | - | 1 | 5 | 49 | 49 | 49 | 2 | 5 | 132 | 66 | 83 | 3 | 5
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ELEMENTS OF ECONOMICS (3RD EDITION) BOOK I. Compiled by J. Linn 1 Economics is the study of allocation of scarce resources among wants that exceed those resources 2 A good is scarce if the amount demanded exceeds the amount supplied at a zero price. 3 Resources are inputs used to produce goods and services. 4 Human rational self-interest is assumed. 5 Economics is a science‚ and employs the scientific method. 6 Theory is a set of testable hypotheses that explain observed
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Ottmas Richards Econ545 – Project 1 1/25/18 Introduction: My neighbor Cindy wants to start a contracting business for installing solar panels (PV Modules). With the ever-growing popularity of ‘green efforts’ among households and businesses she has asked me for my advice before venturing into this industry. Cindy has heard of government incentives for installing solar panels. Cindy is motivated by the green efforts and wants to help reduce the pollution by utilizing a more environmentally
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Week 1 DQ 1 Joseph McCarthy held congressional hearings in which he often used affiliation and hearsay to accuse people of being communists and a threat to the United States. What was unknown at the time was that while his methods were often distasteful and abusive—and possibly illegal—he did successfully identify some dangerous communists. Do you think he should be considered a patriot or not? Why? When looking at this question‚ the first thing we need to know is what a patriot is. The dictionary
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Economics 4130 SP13 Midterm 1 Review The exam will have 5‚ 10-point questions on it from the questions below. 1. List 2 data sources researchers use to estimate historical standards of living and explain what they can infer from these sources. List three indicators of economic development other than National Income measures (NI‚ GDP‚ or GNP‚ level‚ growth rate‚ or per capita) that are of interest to economists and explain what can be inferred from each of these indicators.
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