[pic] Swinburne University of Technology (Sarawak Campus) HBE613 ECONOMICS Higher Education Division Microeconomics Test Term 1‚ 2013 12.5% of Total Unit Marks (to be marked out of 20) Time Allowed: 1 hour Name: ______________________________________ Student ID: ______________________________________ Swinburne University of Technology‚ Sarawak Campus Short Answer Questions There are 4 questions in this section. Each question is worth
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Figure 10-1 [pic] a) Refer to Figure 10-1. The marginal product of the 3rd worker is ______ b) Refer to Figure 10-1. The marginal product of the 7th worker is ______ c) Refer to Figure 10-1. The average product of the 4th worker ______ d) Diminishing marginal productivity sets in after ______ 15) If 11 workers can produce a total of 54 units of a product and a 12th worker has a marginal product of 6 units‚ then the average product of 12 workers is ______ 16) If 11 workers
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------------------------------------------------- The four economic concepts I employed in my report are: ------------------------------------------------- 1. Cost Control ------------------------------------------------- 2. Pricing Strategy ------------------------------------------------- 3. Fighting competition through innovation & branding ------------------------------------------------- 4. People ------------------------------------------------- I previously worked for
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Concepts in Macroeconomic Analysis Stock and Flow Variables Stock: quantity of a variable at a point in time. Eg: Capital stock‚ money supply‚ unemployment level‚ foreign exchange reserve‚ etc. Flow: quantity expressed for a period of time. Eg: GDP‚ inflation‚ exports‚ consumption‚ etc. Aggregate Demand and Aggregate Supply Aggregate Demand: sum of demands for all consumer goods and services and for capital goods – Sum of consumption‚ investment‚ government expenditure and
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founded in 1919‚ and has continued to grow and expand since privatisation in 1987‚ until the global recession hit in 2008. On 23rd January 2009 the UK was officially declared to be in recession following two consecutive quarters in 2008 during which economic growth dropped (BBC‚ 2009). Many businesses‚ including British Airways‚ have found it increasingly difficult to survive in the resulting testing macroeconomic environment. The Recession A recession will often occur when inflation grows rapidly;
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has been able to accomplish in the beginning of his first term. I will briefly discuss topics such as inflation targeting‚ the reason for the low currency rate for the current value of the Canadian dollar‚ unemployment rates‚ debt-to-GDP ratio and economic growth. By going over these concepts we can establish a firm basis of how the economy is doing overall in Canada today. Monetary policy is an important factor when dealing with inflation targeting and interest rates. The central bank of Canada
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6 Cigarette Consumption “Short‚ snappy‚ easily attempted‚ easily completed or just as easily discarded before completion – the cigarette is the symbol of the machine age." New York Times‚ 1925 Annual cigarette consumption ICELAND NORWAY SWEDEN FINLAND per person 1998 or latest available data 2‚500 and above RUSSIAN FED. ESTONIA UNITED KINGDOM IRELAND NETH. BELGIUM DENMARK 1‚500 – 2‚499 500 – 1‚499 1 – 499 RUSSIAN FEDERATION GERMANY POLAND SLOVAKIA BELARUS UKRAINE
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– features related to the company that affect its ability to serve the customer (the company‚ supplier‚ intermediaries‚ customers‚ competitors‚ publics); and macroenvironment – larger forces that have influences the microenvironment (demographic‚ economic‚ natural‚ technological‚ political‚ cultural). 1. Microenvironmental Force Among the six factors‚ competitors would be the most suitable to present the impact of microenvironmental forces on Heineken’s marketing activities. Competitors are those
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Similarities Between Charlotte Gilman ’s "The Yellow Wallpaper" and Jean Rhys ’s Wide Sargasso Sea. Charlotte Gilman ’s "The Yellow Wallpaper" and Jean Rhys ’s Wide Sargasso Sea are stories about women ’s tragic lives in the late nineteenth and mid twentieth centuries. These two stories contain many similarities. In the novel Wide Sargasso Sea‚ the main character Rochester drives his wife to insanity. Similarly‚ in the short story "The Yellow Wallpaper"‚ John drives his wife insane. In addition
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Investment Function Savings and Investment Relationship Here we will take investment in terms of a schedule giving various amounts of investment associated with various levels of income. The investment schedule is the function of entrepreneurial behavior. It tells us how the investors or producers respond to a change in income or in the interest rate over a given time propensity to invest together with propensity to consume determine the level of income. The investment schedule may be compared
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