MBS666 Practice Multiple Choice Questions MULTIPLE CHOICE. Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the question. 1) Economics is the study of the ________ people make to attain their goals‚ given their ________ resources. A) decisions; household B) purchases; unlimited C) income; available D) choices; scarce 2) Which of the following is what economically rational people do? A) Respond to economic incentives. B) Weigh the benefits and costs of all possible alternative
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TUTORIAL 2: Topic 1: The Firm and Its Goals 1) a. If a stock is expected to pay an annual dividend of $20 forever‚ what is the approximate present value of the stock‚ given that the discount rate is 5%? b. If a stock is expected to pay an annual dividend of $20 forever‚ what is the approximate present value of the stock‚ given that the discount rate is 8%? c. If a stock is expected to pay an annual dividend of $20 this year‚ what is the approximate present value of the stock
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Economics 201 notes Chapter 1 : First Principles • Economics is science of decision making • individual choice is the basis of economics • methodology = cost-benefit analysis • If it does not involve choice‚ it isn ’t economics. • Resources (something used to produce something else) include capital like tools and equipment‚ land like natural resources and labor • Resources are scarce • Opportunity cost are all costs that you must give up to get it. • trade-off is the
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mass production. This is what moves us into a nationally integrated economy. The main factors of a nationally integrated economy are labor‚ land‚ capital‚ and knowledge. This can be seen through the chain that connects the surplus of goods to a surplus of labor. The surplus of goods is sold to various buyers through the global and national economies‚ which leaves the farmers with extra money. This extra money can now be used to either invest money in new tools or crops‚ or on purchasing more consumer
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NSS Exploring Economics 4 Chapter 19 Monopoly pricing Questions P.2 Think it over 1. Why does Microsoft not lower its price for Windows so that more people can use its software products? 2. The MTR charges students a lower fare. Do you know why? P.3 Discuss 19.1 Which private companies can be regarded as monopolists in Hong Kong? Do they charge higher prices? What do you mean by ‘higher prices’? Higher than what levels? P.7 Test yourself 19.1 Given the following information
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The price ceiling is the maximum price a seller is allowed to charge for a product or service. An impact on society includes when the prices are so high of a product‚ that no one can buy it. A price floor is the lowest legal price a product or service can be sold at. When market price is at its lowest‚ it may still be too high for consumers to purchase products. Governments can intervene for any purpose‚ and they are the ones who set these price controls. Governments may intervene in the market
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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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suppliers and consumers by changing the cost of production and there by influencing the market equilibrium and quantity. Generally there are two main types of tax that is direct tax and indirect tax. Indirect tax An indirect tax is imposed on producers by the government. Examples are excise duties on cigarettes‚ alcohol‚ fuel and also value added tax. Tax increases the cost of business causing an inward shift in the supply curve. The vertical distance between the pre-tax and the post-tax supply
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not able or willing to buy at the higher price. This deadweight loss is an allocative inefficiency. Figure 1: Pricing in monopolies and perfect competition The consumer surplus in perfect competition is 1+2+4‚ and the producer surplus is 3+5. The consumer surplus in a monopoly is 1‚ the producer surplus is 2+3‚ and the deadweight loss is 4+5. 1.2 Monopolies and productive efficiency In theory‚ a monopoly does not have to be less (productive) efficient than perfect competition
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1. Consider production in a two-input economy‚ with inputs L and K as usual‚ but without any substitution possibilities. Specifically‚ suppose that every unit of L requires exactly four units of K if output is to be increased. (If the firm hires another unit of L and less than four more units of K‚ then output does not increase. If the firm hires another unit of L and more than four more units of K‚ then output rises by the same as if just four more units of K were purchased with the new unit of
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