ECON 5103 Sample Mid Session | 1. To say that a country possesses an absolute advantage means that: | A. | it is relatively more endowed with natural resources than another country. | B. | it is relatively more efficient at producing some but not all goods and services than another country. | C. | it is relatively more efficient at producing goods and services than another country. | D. | there are no gains to specialisation for this country. | | | | | |
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Part 1: Suppose that the tin mining market is perfectly competitive. The market demand curve is given by D(P) = 300 – P‚ where D is measured in units per year‚ and P is measured in $ per units. There are many potential entrants into this market‚ all of whom have identical cost curves. These cost curves are summarized in Table 1 below: Table 1 Cost Curve Formula Maginal cost (in $ per unit) MC = 30. Fixed cost per year FC = 100. (Annualized) Capital charge CC = 100. Capacity (in units per year)
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When the market demand for dry bulk capsizes is high‚ carriers can demand higher spot charter rates. When market demand is low‚ carriers accept lower spot charter rates. Due to 63 new vessels scheduled for commission and imports of iron ore and coal projected to be stagnant‚ spot rate were anticipated to fall over the next two years. 2. What factors derive average daily hire rates? The daily hire rate is determined by supply and demand. Thus‚ we looked at the supply of capsize vessels
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intelligence. Someone else gives them a reality. Disney world is a perfect example for the theory of Simulacra. It plays a lot of illusions and creates a lot of simulation within the amusement park. What attracts people and keeps them coming back is not the physical rides or attractions or even the delicious food‚ it’s the feeling they get when they are at Disney world that makes it. Disney land is there to make us believe that the rest of the world is real. Its not so much the false representation of reality
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mb Event Market affected by event Shift in supply‚ demand‚ or both. Explain your answer. Change in equilibrium Frozen orange crops in California Orange juice Supply (left)—Not as many available oranges to offer consumers. Price will increase and quantity will decrease. Hurricanes in the Gulf Coast Tourism Demand (left) because not as many people are going to want to travel there due to the Threat of hurricanes and the damage from a hurricane will make less availability of hotels. Price
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Real World Fears Typically‚ fictional monsters that are known worldwide are scary because of the metaphors and allegories used behind them. How can a fictional monster be used as an allegory or metaphor? Simple‚ a person’s basic fears are derived from a fictional character from a horror film. For example‚ Leather face‚ from the Texas Chainsaw Massacre film‚ is a character that wears a mask of human skin and kills people who have sinned with his chainsaw (Liebesman). He serves as a real world fear
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In her book‚ The Real World of Technology (1999)‚ Ursula M. Franklin argues that technology has a disruptive effect on humanity. If left-unchecked technology will eventually destroy society as we know it. Franklin illustrates her point by focusing on the effects technology has had on society and cultures in the past. She uses examples from China before the Common Era to the Roman Empire‚ with a majority of examples coming form the last one hundred and fifty years. Such as the Industrial Revolution
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Media vs. Real World Problems The media influences nearly everything and everyone in America and around the world. Television shows‚ music‚ and movies cloud our minds. Therefore‚ we don’t know about even half of the world’s problems. While children in Africa are starving and dying from contaminated water we sit around and watch MTV. The media should use its power to bring real world problems to light. In the political cartoon simply titled “Miley Cyrus” we see the problem with media and it’s
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be hard to grasp since we depend up gas for all our every day use one way or another. (Wrigley‚ S‚ Hess A E.M s‚ and‚ Sauter M B‚ (2013) Gas Prices Expecting another Surge Soon With the rising price for crude oil and the fall in the U.S. supplies is causing the wholesale prices on gas to rise up sharply and there has not yet been any fully reflect on the retail level yet. The prices at our gas pumps has increase by 7 cents compared to the last week of the national average‚ which was $3.55
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1: At the Portland Fish Exchange‚ each day some amount of cod is brought to market. Supply is perfectly inelastic at that amount. How much cod is caught and brought to market varies day to day. Assuming the demand curve does not vary over time‚ use a supply and demand diagram to illustrate how the price is determined on different days. Explain how this process allows us to identify different points on the demand curve. Question 2: Consider the CEO compensation regression results on p.68 of
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