ECON 101 – Macroeconomics Exam 1 (Take-home Part) Name Daniel Martinez Multiple Choice. Encircle the correct answer. [Bring a pencil on Saturday because you will put all your answers to this exam on a scantron sheet.] 1. Rice and potatoes are substitutes. Suppose the price of rice rises and and at the same time there is a bumper (bountiful) crop of potatoes‚ in the market for potatoes one would expect the: A) equilibrium price to rise‚ fall‚ or stay the same and equilibrium
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EBSCOhost 12/10/11 6:12 PM Record: 1 Title: Authors: Other Publishers: A contrarian view of the five-factor approach to personality description. Block‚ Jack‚ U California‚ Dept of Psychology‚ Berkeley‚ US US: Psychological Review Company US: The Macmillan Company US: The Review Publishing Company PsycARTICLES Database: A Contrarian View of the Five-Factor Approach to Personality Description By: Jack Block Department of Psychology‚ University of California‚ Berkeley Acknowledgement: This
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Whenever someone thinks about taking a trip or vacation‚ the first thing one think of is the destination (where exactly do I want to go?); once the destination is selected the ask (why do we want to go to this destination?) what type of attractions and entertainment that this destination has to offer? Next is the transportation (how am I getting there? What mode of transportation am I going to use? Airplane‚ bus‚ car or train?). Then is accommodation (where would we stay on our way to the destination
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Actes du GERPISA n° 26 37 TOYOTA MOTOR MANUFACTURING AUSTRALIA IN 1995: AN EMERGENT GLOBAL STRATEGY Takahiro FUJIMOTO The purpose of this paper is to describe and analyze the manufacturing operations of Toyota Motor Manufacturing Australia Ltd.‚ an Australian subsidiary of Toyota Motor Corporation‚ from the point of view of “emergent global strategy”. It is based on an exploratory case study. In the field of strategic management‚ the notion of “strategy as plan” has been a prevalent
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Walmart Takes on the World Walmart is the world largest retailer. It has more than 6‚500 stores worldwide‚ employs 1.8 million people and has annual sales of $316 billion. The next-largest global retailer Carrefour (a French discount retailer)‚ has sales of $94.5 billion‚ and Wal-Mart’s nearest U.S. competitor in the general merchandise category‚ Target‚ has only $52.6 billion in sales. More than 70 percent of Wal-Mart’s merchandise comes from China. If Wal-Mart were a country‚ it would be
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analytical‚ concentrating more on the cultural behaviour of the organisation rather than relating different culture types to the organisation. This approach emphasises the historical context of the culture of the organisation and relates it to the way it affects the behaviour of staff. According to Linstead et al. (2004:67)‚ this is a ’rich’ approach to
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billion dollars in total. In addition‚ Confucianism is a cultural effect. It encourages corruption indirectly. Courtesy demands reciprocity. It indicates that you are being impolite if you don’t accept one’s present. It is an indirect implication. If you take the money‚ that implies that you need to do something back. The relationship between corruption and
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Opinion Shopping Impair Auditor Independence and Audit Quality? by: Tong Lu Journal of Accounting Research‚ Vol. 44‚ No.3 (Jun.‚ 2006)‚ pp.561-583 Additional articles: Ghosh‚ A.‚ Moon‚ D.‚ (2005). Auditor Tenure and Perceptions of Audit Quality. The Accounting Review‚ Vol. 80(2)‚ pp.585-612. Myers‚ J. N.‚ Myers‚ L. A.‚ Omer‚ T. C.‚ (2003). Exploring the Term of the Auditor-Client Relationship and the Quality of Earnings: Case for Mandatory Auditor Rotation? The Accounting
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citizens are sitting in a jail cell costing taxpayers money to look after. Despite this‚ there are many non-violent crimes which warrant jail time. Without this‚ the penalties for breaking the law might be so mild‚ that people will take calculated risks. No man takes birth as a criminal. Their circumstances force them to do what their heart never wills. Their circumstances can be anything it can be due to poverty‚ ailments or shortage of food. As in the drama bishops candlesticks the convict steals
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The Case Method 1 An Approach to Case Analysis This brief contains two case analysis approaches: (I) a general approach and‚ (II) an approach that focuses on the strategic aspects of case analysis. OPTION I: A General Approach to Case Analysis What is a Case Study? A case study is a description of an actual administrative situation involving a decision to be made or a problem to be solved. It can be a real situation that actually happened just as described‚ or may included portions that
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