SOLUTIONS TO TEXT PROBLEMS: Quick Quizzes: 1. Gross domestic product measures two things at once: (1) the total income of everyone in the economy and (2) the total expenditure on the economy’s output of final goods and services. It can measure both of these things at once because all expenditure in the economy ends up as someone’s income. 2. The production of a pound of caviar contributes more to GDP than the production of a pound of hamburger because the contribution to GDP
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PART I INTRODUCTION TO ECONOMICS Demand‚ Supply‚ and Market Equilibrium 3 © 2009 Pearson Education‚ Inc. Publishing as Prentice Hall Principles of Macroeconomics 9e by Case‚ Fair and Oster PART I INTRODUCTION TO ECONOMICS CHAPTER 3 Demand‚ Supply‚ and Market Equilibrium Demand‚ Supply‚ and Market Equilibrium 3 CHAPTER OUTLINE Firms and Households: The Basic Decision-Making Units Input Markets and Output Markets: The Circular Flow Demand in Product/Output Markets Changes
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MCD2090 Revision Tutorial ( T2‚ 2012) The following questions have been taken from the weekly tutorial questions. You are expected to attempt all of the following questions before you attend tutorial in week 12. 1. Topic: Saving‚ Investment and the Financial System Terms and definitions: * * Financial system * Financial market * Financial intermediaries * Market for loanable funds * Real interest rate * Investment tax credit * Budget deficit * Budget
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Topic: Challenges of Hong Kong’s full service airlines facing today This essay examines the challenges faced by Hong Kong’s full service airlines nowadays. Air transportation serves not only to encourage trade and growth in the tourism industry in Hong Kong‚ but also to improve people ’s mobility and to form a modern society. In this essay‚ full service airline is defined as traditional airline that provides services such as allocated seat‚ transfer of baggage between flights‚ blankets and meals
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CHAPTER 1 MACROECONOMIC SITUATION After an impressive growth performance for almost six years‚ the world economy has entered a period of uncertainty due to a financial turmoil triggered by the subprime mortgage crisis in the United States of America (USA). During 2002 to 2007‚ the world economic growth averaged 4.5 percent per annum compared to 3 percent in the 1990s. The sudden gloom in world economic prospects has come as a surprise in view of the persistent economic growth and stability
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location-specific green building practices that might be ideal in one climate or setting but not in another. Macro-Environment Analysis An enterprise successful outcome does not only rely on the effective managing methods of the organization. There are a lot of factors involved on how businesses behave on market. It is a matter considering all the possible aspects around the enterprise. The macro environment is composed of the external and uncontrollable factors that affect the performance‚ strategies
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MICRO AND MACRO MARKETING ENVIRONMENT Introduction Micro marketing Refers to the internal controllable factors or forces which affects the ability of a company to serve its customers. e.g. the organization‚ the market‚ the suppliers‚ market intermediaries and the marketing mix. The micro marketing environment that surrounds organisations can be complex by nature‚ however the company has an element of control over how it operates within this environment. Macro marketing Refers to the external
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Although both GDP and HDI measure the standard of living in a nation through one statistic‚ GDP is less comprehensive than HDI‚ making it not reflect societal well-being as all-rounded as HDI. GDP show total income of a country‚ indicating that only economic growth is taken into consideration. However‚ through means and expected years of schooling‚ life expectancy at birth and gross national income per capital‚ HDI can cover three dimensions: education‚ health and living standard‚ making HDI serve
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Business Economics 201 Chapter 23: Measuring a Nation’s Income Macroeconomics: a study of the nation’s economy as a whole with a goal of explaining the changes that affect many households‚ firms‚ and markets simultaneously GDP: measures the total income of everyone in the economy and the total expenditure on the economy’s output of goods and services income must equal expenditure every transaction has a buyer and seller Can be computed by adding up expenditure by households or total income
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1. Macro environment External environment is the uncontrollable factors‚ forces‚ situations‚ and events outside the organization that affect its performance and strategies. As shown in below figure‚ the examples of macro environment of an organisation is include factors such as social cultural‚ political and legal‚ globalisation‚ economy‚ demographical and also technology. Detailed definition of macro environment factors mentioned and the description showed as below. Figure 1: Component of
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