Home work questions Define the following 1. Costs in economics are those things that must be given up in order to have something else. 2. Revenues are the income earned from a firm’s sale of its good or service to consumers in the product market. 3. Profit is the difference between a firm’s total revenues and its total costs. 4. Explicit costs are the monetary payments that firms make to the owners of land‚ labor‚ and capital in the resource market. (i.e. rent‚ wages and interest respectively)
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CHAPTER 6| Elasticity: The Responsiveness of Demand and Supply SOLUTIONS TO END-OF-CHAPTER EXERCISES Answers to Thinking Critically Questions 1. Even if the overall demand for gasoline is inelastic‚ a revenue increase for Joe’s Gas-and-Go will occur only if the percentage increase in price is greater than the percentage decrease in quantity demanded. If Joe’s price increase is too large and Joe has other competitors who do not raise their prices‚ then it is possible that the percentage
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Unit 1 Assignment Chapter 4 1. What is a competitive market? Briefly describe a type of market that is not perfectly competitive A competitive market is a market with many buyers and sellers trading identical products so that each buyer and seller is a price taker (Mankiw‚ p.66). Local energy provider is not a perfect market but a monopoly because there in only one provider. 2. What are the demand schedule and the demand curve‚ and how are they related? Why does the demand curve
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CHAPTER Perfect Competition 11 After studying this chapter you will be able to ! Define perfect competition ! Explain how firms make their supply decisions and why they sometimes shut down temporarily and lay off workers ! Explain how price and output in an industry are determined and why firms enter and leave the industry ! Predict the effects of a change in demand and of a technological advance ! Explain why perfect competition is efficient The Busy Bee The busy
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Chapter 2. Demand and Supply Markets A market is where buyers and sellers come together to carry out an economic transaction. Markets may be physical places where goods or services are exchanged for money‚ but there are other ways that economic transactions may be made‚ such as online markets. Product markets: the place where goods and services are bought and sold Factor markets (labor market): the place where the factors of production are bought and sold. Financial markets (e.g. foreign
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Chapter 9 1. All firms‚ no matter what type of firm structure they are producing in‚ make their production decisions based on where: marginal revenue equals marginal costs. 2. According to the table below‚ when profits are maximized‚ profits are equal to: $2. 3. Many economists believe that the market for wheat in the United States is an almost perfectly competitive market. If one firm discovers a technology that makes their wheat taste better and have fewer calories than all other wheat
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Chapter 4 2. Why do economists use percentages rather than absolute amounts in measuring the responsiveness of consumers to changes in price? Why do economists use percentages rather than absolute amounts in measuring the responsiveness of consumers to changes in price? Economists use percentages rather than absolute amounts for two different reasons. The first reason for using percentages rather than absolute amounts has to do with the affect a particular amount can have on demand.
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Economics IB past paper questions Structural questions 1. (a) “The price elasticity of demand and the price elasticity of supply for many primary commodities tend to be low.” Explain what is meant by this statement‚ and how this contributes to the problem of price instability for primary commodity producers. [10 marks] (b) Evaluate the view that it is best to allow primary commodity prices to be determined purely through the free interaction of market forces. [15 marks] 2. Explain what
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Cheat A reckless driver zoomed down the wet and slippery roads. His car was shaking as his speakers blasted the thundering growls‚ the biting guitars‚ and the thrashing drums. He was angry that he couldn’t keep his car clean. It had been raining all week making his pride-and-joy ugly and dull‚ it made his blood boil which wasn’t a difficult feat these days. So he was dealing with his anger the only way he could at the moment. His music‚ he said‚ helped him relax. She knew he was lying. Sitting
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Microeconomics and the Law of Supply and Demand Thomas Smiley ECO 365 May 31st‚ 2015 Alexander Heil During the simulation of Goodlife Inc. I was able to see how the effects of a lower rent verses a higher rent had on the vacancy percentage. In our simulation the town of Atlantis had only one rental agency with apartments available. There were single family homes available too but the need for renting was with apartments. I got to see how the supply and demand worked with
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