Chapter 1 Hong Kong’s Business Environment Think it over (p. 2) 1 Arguments for: lower costs (e.g.‚ rent and salary)‚ larger space for expansion‚ and a better living environment for workers‚ which makes it easier to recruit overseas staff. Arguments against: high relocation costs‚ poor communication network‚ restricted flow of information‚ far from China’s market‚ increase in transportation costs‚ difficult to hire skilled labour. 2 When considering relocation‚ students should
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Chapter 10 Supply-Side Equilibrium: Unemployment and Inflation? Problems 1. PROFIT IS EQUAL TO REVENUE MINUS COST‚ WHERE REVENUE EQUALS PRICE TIMES QUANTITY OF OUTPUT‚ WHILE COST EQUALS THE WAGE RATE TIMES EMPLOYMENT (ASSUMING WAGES ARE THE ONLY COST OF PRODUCTION). ASSUME THAT‚ ON AVERAGE‚ EACH FIRM PRODUCES 100 UNITS OF OUTPUT A DAY‚ EMPLOYS 90 WORKERS AND PAYS A WAGE OF $100 A DAY. a) As the price of output rises from $80 to $90‚ $100‚ $110‚ and $120‚ show how the
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Sahar Snell IT 206 Week 2 Assignment Day 7 May 18‚ 2014 Microsoft Word is a program used in school or business to create‚ edit‚ print‚ and you can also publish documents to the internet or web. What you need is Microsoft Word however it comes in the MS Office package along with other software like PowerPoint‚ Excel‚ etc. It is not going to cause you any additional problems. You will most likely need these other programs in college as well. You are mostly interested in Microsoft Word so let me
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Name: _________________________ (Last name‚ first name) SID: _________________________ GSI: _________________________ Econ 100B Macroeconomic Analysis Professor Steven Wood Fall 2012 Exam #1 ANSWERS Please sign the following oath: The answers on this exam are entirely my own work. I neither gave nor received any aid while taking this exam. I will not discuss the questions on this test until after 5:00 p.m. on September 27‚ 2012. _______________________________________ Signature
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Exam Name___________________________________ MULTIPLE CHOICE. Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the question. 1) Equilibrium in the goods market occurs where A) aggregate expenditure equals autonomous consumption. B) real GDP equals nominal GDP. C) aggregate expenditure equals real GDP. D) autonomous consumption equals induced consumption. 2) Other things equal‚ if planned investment spending is greater than actual investment spending‚ then aggregate expenditure
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Hong Kong’s Economic and Political Environment Hong Kong’s retrocession in the summer of 1997 was an event long prepared for‚ and built up to‚ in the minds of the territory’s citizens and residents. A significant number of the educated applied for overseas passports and left for more politically and economically stable environments in which to live and work; the "Brain Drain" was a significant problem for Hong Kong from 1984. Return to Chinese rule brought a promise from China that Hong Kong
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consumers‚ but there is no single company that dominates that market to the point of setting the standards in terms of pricing. Markets with this type of condition normally have large numbers of sellers who are capable of meeting the needs of consumer market‚ and actively compete with one another for the business of those consumers. There are several advantages to the existence of a perfect competition situation within a given consumer market. One has to do with the options open to customers. With a
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Demographic environment The phrase demographic environment is composed of two words‚ demographic which in turn comes from demography and environment. Demography is the study of the human population living in an area‚ their age‚ jobs‚ income‚ spending habits‚ ethnicity‚ and gender and so on. In terms of marketing and business‚ this study of human population actually leads to an identification of the potential customers. Businesses employ quite a few methods to identify potential customers for their
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Task 2 2.1 Contemporary changes that occur within the macro and microenvironment heavily influence marketing decisions.Using the case study illustrade this. The term micro-environment denotes those elements over which the marketing firm has control or which it can use in order to gain information that will better help it in its marketing operations. In other words‚ these are elements that can be manipulated‚ or used to glean information‚ in order to provide fuller satisfaction to the company’s customers
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Rajagiri Business School PGDM - Term 2 Macroeconomics Case Study GROUP 1 1. In a country‚ the velocity of money is constant. Real GDP grows by 5% per year‚ the money stock by 14% per year‚ and the nominal interest rate is 11 per cent. What is the real interest rate? 2. Suppose a country has a money demand function (M/P)d = kY‚ where k is a constant parameter. The money supply grows by 12% per year‚ and real income grows by 4% per year. (a) What is the average inflation rate?
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