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ECO 201 Project Template
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Memo
To: My Business Partner
From: Date: 3/23/2023
Re: Microeconomics Simulations
Introduction
This memorandum report identifies and explains key microeconomic principles using a set of simulation games. The outcome of these games illustrate how microeconomic principles can be applied within real-life situations to help us make better business decisions. This report is a summary of the simulations I played
and their results, which include the key takeaways and their significance, for your review and reference. It is divided into the following sections:
1.
Comparative Advantage
2.
Competitive Markets and Externalities
3.
Production, Entry, and Exit
4.
Market Structures
(including the Price Discrimination and Cournot simulations)
5.
Conclusions
6.
References
Comparative Advantage (Module Two)
When owning a business, you will need to look at both opportunity costs and comparative advantage to make your business successful.
I would start with evaluating opportunity costs to make financial decisions (what am I willing to give up) and time spent. The opportunity costs is essential in decision making to find the best benefits and what you are willing to sacrifice in making your decisions, while the comparative advantage results in making the best decisions and having lower prices so consumers have access to your products.
The Production Possibilities Frontier (PPF) graph illustrates different products that can be produced when both depend on the same resources.
The PPF will help represent what the economy can produce while using resources efficiently.
The graph also represents the increasing opportunity cost with the increased output of a good.
Author Peter Johnson & Author Dheeraj Vaidya A.A. Production Possibility Frontier. Website. https://www.wallstreetmojo.com
Production Possibility Frontier - Definition, Curve, Example (wallstreetmojo.com)
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PARAMETER
PERSONAL VEHICLE
CITY BUS SYSTEM
MODE CONSTANT
-0.01
-0.07
ACCESS TIME (SECS)
300
600
WAITING TIME (SECS)
0
900
RIDING TIME (SECS)
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COST (DOLLARS)
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2700
5000
p = 38 +
(for D>1)
D²
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regression result for your product is shown in the table below:
Variable
Parameter Estimates
Standard error
Constant
-164.0
20.24
Price of good X (P,)
Price of good Y (P,)
-3.50
1.55
2.50
0.28
Per capita Income (/)
0.45
0.52
R-squared
Adjusted R-squared
0.8672
0.8132
F-statistic
15.6893
a) Suppose the average price of 3 units of good X is GH¢12, price of 2 units of goodY is
GH¢60, the per capita income of Ghana is GH¢420.
i.
Write down the estimated demand equation for your firm's product and interpret
the parameter estimates.
Determine the quantity of good X sold.
Estimate the own price elasticity of demand and state the type of demand curve
11.
111.
your firm has?
What would be the effect of a price increase on the firm's total revenue?
iv.
Assess the probable impact on your firm if the firm producing geod Y decreases
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Explain the adjusted R-squared
Is the good X a normal or inferior good?
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V.
vi.
vii.
viii..
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Table COST11: Monthly Costs, Revenues and
Other Information for a Bakery
Product Price (P*) =
$8
%3D
Items Sold (Q*) =
%3D
1,500
Health and Safety Inspection Costs =
$140
Spouse's Former Wages (as the Owner's Assistant) = $1,500
%3D
%3D
The Entrepreneur's Former Earning =
$1,600
%3D
Home Delivery Expenses =
$400
Production Materials Costs
$2,450
Wages Paid to Workers (wL) =
$2,050
Rent & Utility Payments =
$1,500
According to information in Table Cost11 for a competitive firm, accounting and economic profits are
and
respectively.
$5,260; $2,160
O $5,260; $2,060
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the window frame is 6.2 meter. A crew of two labors is required to manufacture one steel
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meter, and the weight of aluminum is 4.5 kg per meter. The cost of steel is 0.4 OMR per kg
and the cost of aluminum 1.1 OMR per kg. If 45 windows frames are required for the project,
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Problem 1
Brutus Corporation produces two products, Paper Towel (P) and Foot Mop (F),
which must be processed in two departments, Cutting and Finishing. Cutting has 130 hours available per month, while Finishing has 185 hours.
The number of hours required to process the products in the two departments and the contribution margin per unit of the products are as follows:
CM per unit
Required hours per unit:
Cutting
Finishing
Required:
Paper Towel (P)
18
4 hours
6
3) In the Cutting constraint, if F=0, how much is P?
4) In the Finishing constraint, if P=0, how much is F?
Foot Mop (F)
24
8 hours
10
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QUESTION 13
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Output
Input
Meat
hamburgers.
in
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in dry cleaning.
Tires
in automobiles.
Property tax
in
textile production.
Gasoline
in trucking services.
Depreciation
aircraft production.
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4. The estimation of the model with quarterly car sales in the U.S. from 1975 to 1990
gives:
Source |
df
MS
Number of obs =
64
F( 2,
Prob > F
61) =
12.21
Model
.32720224
2
.16360112
0.0000
Residual |
.817286587
61
.013398141
R-squared
Adj R-squared = 0.2625
Root MSE
0.2859
Total | 1.14448883
63
.018166489
.11575
lqne | cCoef.
t P>|t|
std. Err.
[95% Conf. Interval]
1price
lincome
-.4604611
3.37186
6.89398
-.8280926
.1838504
-4.50
0.000
-1.195724
2.399991
. 4860261
4.94
0.000
1.428121
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5.92543
.4843662
12.23
0.000
4.95688
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Methods or techniques applied in maximizing of minimizing an objective function. *
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mathematical economics
optimization techniques
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