73-240 | Recitation A Problem Set 1 Problem 1: Nominal GDP‚ Real GDP‚ Price Indices‚ and Inflation A. Nominal GDP in Year 1 = $430 Nominal GDP in Year 2 = $617.50 Growth Rate of Nominal GDP = 44% B. RGDP(1) in Year 1 = $430 RGDP(1) in Year 2 = $410 RGDP(1) growth = -4.65% RGDP(2) in Year 1 = $655 RGDP(2) in Year 2 = $617.50 RGDP(2) growth = -5.73% The answer differs depending on which base year you use because the relative prices of the goods in comparison to each other (price
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Week 4 Checkpoint March 17‚ 2013 XACC/290 Resource: Ch. 4 of Financial Accounting Complete Exercise BE4-1. Complete Problems 4-2A & 4-3A. BE4-1: |Cash |Net Income | |-$100 |$0 | |-$20 |$0 | |+$1‚300 |$1‚300 | |+$800 |$800 | |-$2‚500 |$0 | |-$600 |$0 | | |
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University of Toronto ECO333–Urban Economics Problem Set 2 Due: 24 October 2014 1. Question 2.1 from Brueckner (p. 250) (book available at http://go.utlib.ca/cat/8842730). 2. (a) Suppose the city fathers in a small Midwestern town‚ which was started over 100 years ago as a county seat‚ originally zoned all residential lot sizes in the town to be the same size. All work takes place either at the county seat building on the square in the middle of town or at shops adjacent to the square. Everyone drives
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ACC 291 Week 3 Individual Study Guide Accounting Problems - www.paperscholar.com DIRECT LINK TO THIS STUDY GUIDE: http://www.paperscholar.com/acc-291-week-3-individual-assignment-accounting-problems-7/ Instantly Download! Get Better Grades in Less Time! 100% Satisfaction Guarantee DESCRIPTION FOR THIS STUDY GUIDE: TUTORIAL: Includes solutions to accounting problems. Individual Assignment: Accounting Problems QUESTION 1 Don Walls’s gross earnings for the week were $1‚780‚ his
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Department of Economics University of California‚ Berkeley Fall 2012 Econ 182 Solutions Problem Set 8 Problem 1. Exchange Rates and International Transmission a. Suppose that the US engages in a monetary expansion. Since exchange rate is pegged to the US dollar‚ country X’s monetary authorities are forced to expand their money supply as well (recall that i = i* under FixER). Interest rates fall in country X‚ output expands‚ and of course the exchange rate remains unchanged. On the AA-DD diagram
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Econ 136: Financial Economics Problem Set #1 Due Date: September 11‚ 2014 1. The return profile and risk of the S&P 500. In this exercise you will reproduce the graphs presented in class. The goal of this exercise is (i) to expand your datahandling skills‚ (ii) test your understanding of basic probability concepts using real data and (iii) develop an appreciation for the use of replicating a result to ensure that you understand it. Go to Yahoo Finance (finance.yahoo.com) and search for the ticker
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ECON112 Macroeconomics Problem Set 3 *Solution* Fall 2010 (Instructor: Li‚ Yao; TA: Fok Pik Lin‚ Astor) -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Posted: Monday‚ November 1‚ 2010 Due: 5:30 PM Monday‚ November 8‚ 2010 40 marks total Part I: True/False/Uncertain Please justify your answer with a short argument for each question and draw a diagram if necessary. (15 marks‚ 3 marks each: 1 mark for correct judgment
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Problem Set 2 – Strategy I 1. Why do price misreads (or more generally the inability to observe prices with precision) encourage firms to lower prices? [Note: assume all prices are subject to misreads.] Misreads occur when a firm are competing with no information about competitors and assumes that competitors have taken an uncooperative pricing action when in fact they are cooperative. This assumption makes the firm react in an uncooperative manner‚ lowering the price. This asymmetric information
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Microeconomics (Fall 2014) Simon Bowmaker Problem Set 6 Submit at lecture (Monday‚ November 10) Write your answers on separate sheets of paper. Please include: your name your recitation teacher’s name day and time of the recitation NB: if your recitation takes place on Monday morning‚ you must submit your assignment to your teacher at the beginning of the recitation. 1. Assume a monopolist faces the following market demand: Q = 100 - 2P. The monopolist’s total cost function is TC = 5+8Q2. What
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Selected answer key for problem set 1 Econ262 C1.2 (i) There are 1‚388 observations in the sample. Tabulating the variable cigs shows that 212 women have cigs > 0. (ii) The average of cigs is about 2.09‚ but this includes the 1‚176 women who did not smoke. Reporting just the average masks the fact that almost 85 percent of the women did not smoke. It makes more sense to say that the “typical” woman does not smoke during pregnancy; indeed‚ the median number
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