Public Goods and Coase theorem April 29-May 2 Part I Public Goods A good is a (pure) public good if once produced it meets two criteria: 1. Non-rival - A good is non-rival if consumption of additional units of the good involves zero social marginal costs of production. 2. Non-excludable - A good is non-excludable if it impossible‚ or very costly‚ to exclude individuals from benefiting from the good. Taking these two criteria we can categorize goods into four groups. Rival Non-rival
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that can best be used for business forecasting is the: 5. An example of a time series data set is one for which the: 6. If two alternative economic models are offered‚ other things equal‚ we would 7. European Union labor costs exceed U.S. and British labor costs primarily because 8. If Ben Bernanke‚ Chair of the Federal Reserve Board‚ begins to tighten monetary policy by raising US interest rates next year‚ what is the likely impact on the value of the dollar? 9. If the British pound
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Overall Cost Leadership Porter defines “Overall Cost Leadership” as the strategy in which a company differentiates from others by having the lowest prices of the market. One example of this strategy correctly performed in Australia is Woolworths. According to Jhon Steen (2009)‚ in order to accomplish such prices‚ Woolworths focus on two main points: Logistics and Economics on Scale. They have learned to manage the supply chain in a very efficient way‚ investing in technology and reducing the
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University of XXXBUS 500B Fall 2014 Homework 2.2 Due Date: Sunday 09/28 Instructor: KittiTrade 1. Nation A’s production in 1 day Nation B’s production in 1 day Computers 100 Software 140 Computers 120 Software 150 Two nations can produce computers and software in the amounts given in the table above. Using the same amount of resources to produce two goods. Draw PPF curve and explain the reason of each question. a. Does either nation have an absolute advantage in producing
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2 220 3 300 4 360 5 400 6 420 7 430 1. Calculate the marginal product of the third student; 2. Calculate the average product of three students; 3. Over what numbers of students does marginal product increase? 4. When marginal product increases‚ compare average product and marginal product. Two: (10 points) Tulip growing is a perfectly competitive industry‚ and all tulip growers have the same cost curves. The market price of tulip is $15 a bunch‚ and each grower maximizes
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P 69‚994. If the cost of making a forging is P 56 per unit and its selling price is P 135 per forged unit‚ find the number of unit to be forged to break-even. Solution: Let: x = number of units to be forged to break-even Income = 135x Expenses = 69‚994 + 56x To break-even: Income = Expenses 135x = 69‚994 + 56x 79x =69‚994 x = 886 units Steel drum manufacturer incurs a yearly fixed operating cost of $ 200‚000. Each drum manufactured costs $ 160 to produce and
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compromising standards of labor performance. (T) 4. Increases in sales volume tend to improve labor productivity. (T) * As his efficiency increase‚ the cost of labor per unit produced actually decrease. * Increase in sales volume results in greater employee efficiency at lower labor cost per unit 5. The key to successful labor cost control is paying the lowest possible dollar wage.(F) May use of part-time staff‚ outsourcing 6. The local minimum wage is an amount set by a group of
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2-22 Variable costs and fixed costs. Consolidated Minerals (CM) owns the rights to extract minerals from beach sands on Fraser Island. CM has costs in three areas: a. Payment to a mining subcontractor who charges $80 per ton of beach sand mined and returned to the beach (after being processed on the mainland to extract three minerals: ilmenite‚ rutile‚ and zircon). b. Payment of a government mining and environmental tax of $50 per ton of beach sand mined. c. Payment to a barge operator. This
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revenuecurve.Further‚ in monopoly‚ since average revenue falls as more units of output are sold‚the marginal revenue is less than the average revenue.In other words‚ under monopolythe MR curve lies below the AR curve. The Equilibrium level in monopoly is that level of output in which marginal revenueequals marginal cost.The producer will continue producer as long as marginal revenueexceeds the marginal cost.At the point where MR is equal to MC the profit will bemaximum and beyond this point the producer
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Introduction Opportunity cost refers to what you have to give up to buy what you want in terms of other goods or services. When economists use the word "cost‚" we usually mean opportunity cost. The word "cost" is commonly used in daily speech or in the news. For example‚ "cost" may refer to many possible ways of evaluating the costs of buying something or using a service. Friends or newscasters often say "It cost me $150 to buy the iPhone I wanted." Definitions and Basics Opportunity Cost‚ from the Concise
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