Managerial Economics HW #4 (Chapter 5) 1.A firm can manufacture a product according to the production function Q F(K‚ L) K3/4L1/4 a. Calculate the average product of labor‚ APL‚ when the level of capital is fixed at 16 units and the firm uses 16 units of labor. How does the average product of labor change when the firm uses 81 units of labor? Saat (Capital) K = 16 (Labour) L = 16 Q = (16)0‚75(16)0‚25 Q = (8)(2) = 16 APL =Q/L =16/16=1. Saat K= 16 Q= 81 Q = (16)0‚75(81)0‚25 Q = (8)(3)
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Managerial Economics Section A 1) a. Macroeconomics 2) c. Demand function 3) b. Arc elasticity 4) b. Consumer goods 5) c. The Indifference Curve 6) a. Future costs 7) c. Equilibrium 8) b. Gross national product 9) b. Product approach 10) c. GDP PART TWO: 1) The elasticity of one variable with respect to another between two given points. It is used when there is no general function to define the relationship of the two variables. Arc elasticity is also defined as the elasticity between two points
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1. Game Theory A. Question #9-6 (basketball players…) Barbara: a. Both Compete = 12 points (individually) ? 24 points (together) b. Monopolize = 18 points (individually) ? 20 points (together) c. Cooperates = 2 points (individually) ? 20 points (together) d. Monopolize = 8 points (dual) ? 16 points Juanita: e. Both Compete = 12 points (individually) ? 24 points (together) f. Monopolize = 18 points (individually) ? 20 points (together) g. Cooperates = 2 points (individually) ? 20 points
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Dr. David J. St. Clair Managerial Economics and Business Strategy 3551 #6 Answers – Summer 2012 1. What type of evidence did Dupont introduce in its plastic wrap trial that proved decisive in its acquittal? __ It brought in cross elasticities to show that there were many substitutes for plastic wrap. It then argued that the market had to be defined to include all substitutes. This broadened the definition of the market to the point where DuPont’s market share
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DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS Faculty of Arts The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda Bachelor of Arts (Honours) Programme of Studies ECONOMICS 6-Semester Course 3 Credit Course per paper per semester Maximum 45 hours per paper Course Titles and Detailed Syllabi [w.e.f. 2013-2014] 1 Titles of Courses Semester Course No. Semester-01 CORE - 01 (04) ALLIED - 01 / 02 INTD ELCTV - 01 Semester-02 CORE - 02 (06) ALLIED - 03 / 04 INTD ELCTV - 02 FOUNDATION - 06 FOUNDATION - 07 Semester-03 CORE - 03 (07)
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Name Professor Subject Date Global Managerial Economics The small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) form a crucial part of the U.S. economy. The SMEs create the most jobs in the country; they target the ordinary Americans for employment thus making them a very important component of the economy. Without the SMEs‚ the economy will bleed millions of jobs‚ adversely affecting the economy. This is the reasoning behind the drive by President Obama to give this sector newly acquired impetus and promote
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Economics Over the last couple of weeks‚ there has been a lot of valuable information about what economics is and how it works through the presentations and the guest speakers.. Economics is basically the understanding of how different economies function. Economics is the study of how to best allocate scarce resources among competing uses. Scarcity in the economy is the main problem. There are not enough resources to keep up with the demand for them. Within the discipline of economics‚ there
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CHAPTER 9 Three conditions for a market to be perfectly competitive? Many buyers and sellers‚ with all firms selling identical products‚ and no barriers to new firms entering the market. In perfectly competitive markets‚ prices are determined by The interaction of market demand and supply because firms and consumers are price takers. Price taker Buyer or seller that is unable to affect the market price. A buyer or seller that takes the market price as given When are firms likely to be
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and exit Short Run Firm has some market power and faces downward sloping demand curve Price exceeds marginal cost When P>AC firms earn positive economic profits Long Run Positive economic profits in short run attracts new firms Firm’s market share falls and demand curve shifts down P=AC firms earn 0 economic profit P>MC and 0 economic profits deadweight loss Market in which only a few firms compete with one another‚ and entry by new firms is impeded Oligopoly Environment Few
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$10‚000 Utilities $1‚000 Interest on bank loan $10‚000 ________________________________________ Calculate (a)the explicit costs‚ (b) the implicit costs (c) the business profit (d) the economic profit and (e) the normal return on investment in the business. a) Explicit Costs = $45‚000 + $15‚000 + $10‚000 + $1‚000 + $10‚000 = $81‚000 b) Implicit Costs = Opportunity Cost – which is her salary foregone = $25‚000 c)
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