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    firms that supply the same product‚ such as local gas stations. Mankiw (2007) stated‚ “You may recall that a market is competitive if each buyer and seller is small compared to the size of the market and‚ therefore‚ has little ability to influence market prices” (p. 289). A firm has market power when it is capable of influencing the market price. In a competitive market‚ the market determines the price the sellers will charge. Mankiw (2007) stated‚ “In particular‚ if firms are competitive and profit

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    The price elasticity of demand (PED) is “a measure of how much the quantity demanded of a good responds to a change in price of the good” (Mankiw 2007‚ p.90). It is a form of measure to determine how willing consumers are to move away from the good as the price of the good rises. Most of the time‚ there are factors that determines the PED‚ such as availability of close substitutes‚ necessities versus luxuries‚ definition of the market and time horizon. In order to calculate the PED‚ a formula is

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    of the 10 Principles of Economics (Mankiw‚ N. G.‚ 2007‚ p. 3); these principles determine the outcome of the decision to purchase a new home. The 10 Principles of Economics The 10 Principles of Economics are based on individual behaviors‚ interactions of people in an economy and how these behaviors and interactions creates an economy overall. The Decision to Purchase a House Trading one benefit for another is the first principle of economics (Mankiw‚ N. G.‚ 2007‚ p. 4). For example‚ living

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    Sample Essay Questions with Short Discussion N. Gregory Mankiw‚ Intermediate Macroconomics‚ Worth Publishers. http://bcs.worthpublishers.com/mankiw5 Abstract These short essay questions and suggested answers are from the Worth Publishers website associated with the fifth edition of N. Gregory Mankiw‚ Intermediate Macroeconomics. They are provided without any guarantee. Please check for typos‚ errors‚ omissions and report back. These essay questions are generally quite short and the suggested

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    Topic: If the market is so great‚ why do we need government? Discuss. Support your arguement with suitable examples and evidences. Market is often known as physical places‚ such as supermarket or shopping mall (TheFreeDictionary‚1963). Market is a place for buyers (who determined the demand of products) and sellers (who determined the supply of goods) to trade goods and services. It is also a place for operation the forces of demand and supply(BusinessDictionary.com‚1910). According

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    Buying a Wii Game Console

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    meant that the stores supply did not meet the demand for the Wii. Supply is the claim that other things equal the quantity supplied of a good rises when the price of the good rises. (Mankiw‚ 2007) Demand is the claim that other things equal the quantity demanded of a good falls when the price of the good rises. (Mankiw‚ 2007) When purchasing a Wii Game Console there are several factors that can affect supply and demand. One factor that would affect the supply and demand for the Wii Console would

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    How People Make Economic Decisions According to Mankiw‚ the four principles of individual decision-making are: “People Face Trade-offs‚ The Cost of Something Is What You Give Up to Get It‚ Rational People Think at the Margin‚ and People Respond to Incentives:” People face trade-offs by having to give up something to get what they want or need. This is no surprise for most people who learn early in life that few things are free. As an example of a trade-off‚ many times college students

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    supplied for newspaper is responsive to price changes in the short run. (Mankiw‚ 2009) The demand is inelastic because newspaper has very few substitutes. Although online news is getting popular nowadays‚ the majority still prefer to read the papers. Besides‚ newspaper is a necessity which people read every day to know what happens around the world. Newspaper has a broadly defined market and it has no good substitutes. (Mankiw‚ 2009) The supply of newspaper is elastic because firms that produce

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    are no trading strategies that produce positive‚ expected‚ risk-adjusted excess returns”. However‚ it is impossible that the market will always efficiency. This is because there are many issues or effects which contain in the market. According to Mankiw (2007)‚ “Market failure is a situation in which a market left on its own fails to allocate resources efficiently”. Moreover‚ fail to allocate resources efficiently means that the benefit does not equal to the cost‚ or the demand does not meet the

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    part of it is what the selling the ticket is for. Sometimes selling a ticket is to bring in more people other times it may be to improve understanding and quality for the fans. However it is all planned around receiving as much revenue as possible. Mankiw text would say to price the ticket as high as possible and to charge everybody for the ticket. However there may be a young boy suffering in the hospital whose dream is to go to the big football game. Christian ethics wouldn’t charge the boy for

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