ECO 5305 Final Exam Answers underlined in yellow 1. Fixed costs include: a. variable labor expenses. b. output-related energy costs. c. output-related raw material costs. d. variable interest costs for borrowed capital. 2. Marginal cost equals: a. average variable cost at its maximum point. b. the change in total fixed cost divided by the change in quantity. c. the change in total variable cost divided by the change in quantity. d. total cost divided by quantity
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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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Name:_________________________ ECO 101 Principles of Microeconomics Final Exam Spring 2006 Form A There are 30 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions on this double-sided exam‚ so be careful not to skip any questions! Part I: Multiple Choice (60 points) Read each question carefully and select the best response. Fill in the corresponding circle on your answer sheet. 1. If the total output of candles in Nick’s Wicks shop increases from 20 per hour to 30 per hour
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This paperwork of ECO 372 Final Exam shows the solutions to the following problems: 1) The largest source of household income in the U.S. is obtained from A. stock dividends B. wages and salaries C. interest earnings D. rental income 2) The market where business sell goods and services to households and the government is called the A. goods market B. factor market C. capital market D. money market 3) Real gross domestic product is best defined as
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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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CARLETON UNIVERSITY Department of Economics ECON 4302 Competition and Regulatory Policy Instructor: D.G. McFetridge Fall Term 2011 Office: A806 Loeb Building Phone: 613-520-2600 ext. 3748 E-mail: donald_mcfetridge@carleton.ca Office Hours: Mondays‚ 2:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. and Thursdays‚ 11:30 a.m. – 12:30‚ or by appointment COURSE WEB SITE: www.carleton.ca/~dmcfet/courses PREREQUISITE: ECON 2030 with a grade of C- or higher or ECON 2003 (no longer offered) with a grade of C- or higher. COURSE FORMAT:
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University of Southern California Econ 513 Spring 2012–2013 Prof. Sakata Final Examination Date: Tuesday‚ April 14‚ 2013 Instruction: (a) This is a two-hour‚ closed-book exam. Put away everything but pens‚ pencils‚ erasers‚ and a numeric calculator. (b) Write your name and student ID on the front pages of the exam and its appendix‚ and continue to read this instruction. Do NOT look at other pages‚ however‚ until you are told to start to write the exam. (c) Solve all problems. (d) Fully
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Sierra Van Meter #003978571 Econ 410 June 4‚ 2014 Written Report So you might ask yourself‚ what exactly is a recession? According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics‚ characteristics of a recession include: a general slowdown in economic activity‚ a downturn in the business cycle‚ as well as a reduction in the amount of goods and services produced and sold. The official arbiter of U.S. recessions‚ the National Bureau of Economic Research‚ states that there has been a total of ten recessions between
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UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - LA CROSSE NAME___________________________________ Department of Economics Eco 110 - Microeconomics and Public Policy Donna Anderson‚ Ph.D. Sample Final Exam: Note: Actual Final will be shorter SHOW YOUR WORK! ** points 1. Provide the best answer to the multiple choice questions on the scantron sheet 2. Answer the short answer questions on the test. 3. Your responses will be evaluated based on whether you answered the question and the quality of the response
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1. (5 pts)What is the Hecksher-Ohlin Theory of Comparative Advantage? This is a theory developed by two Swedish economists to explain how countries develop comparative advantage in certain areas rather than others. The model works as follows: 1) Assume every country‚ for the most part‚ has access to the same technology. 2) Still‚ factors of production are difficult to move across national boundaries. 3) It follows from (2) that factors of production are relatively bound by geography and national
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