ECON 2020 – FINAL EXAM REVIEW Exam 1 Review Scarcity * A situation in which unlimited wants exceed the limited resources available to fulfill those wants. * Scarcity leads to CHOICE Choice * A situation caused by scarcity. * Leads to OPPORTUNITY COST Rational Choice (Marginal Cost & Benefit) * Rational consumers will use all available information as they act to achieve their goals * Marginal Benefit – The benefit that arises from an increase in an activity * Marginal Cost – The opportunity cost that arises from an increase in that activity Normative vs Positive * Normative – “what ought to be” (Subjective) * Positive – “What is” (Objective) Specialization & Gains From Trade * …show more content…
* Where MR = MC Accounting vs Economic Profit * Accounting Profit – What a firm makes when total revenue is greater than total cost * Economic Profit – Takes into account Opportunity Cost. It asks what a firm makes when TR > TC and all other opportunity costs Perfect Competition * Features of Perfect Competition * Many buyers and sellers * Identical product * No barriers to entry or exit * Established firms have no advantage over newer firms * Perfect information – all buyers and sellers are fully
Imagine that you have decided to open a small ice cream stand on campus called "Ice-Campusades." You are very excited because you love ice cream (delicious!) and this is a fun way for you to apply your business and economics skills! Here is the first month's scenario--you order the same number (and the same variety) of ice creams each day from the ice cream suppliers, and your ice creams are always marked at $1.50 each. However, you notice that there are days when ice creams remain unsold but other days when there are not enough ice creams for the number of customers.
Apple Incorporation is one of the biggest high technology company that operates worldwide. Is was established on April 1, 1976 in California by Steve Wozniak, Steve Jobs and Ronald Wayne.The company is known for designing and manufacturing several technology devices include Smart Phones (iPhone), Tablets, iPods, iPads, Mac, Apple TV, Apple watches as known as smart watches, it also produce software’s like the OS X and iOS operating systems, and offers several online services such as iCloud, Apple Pay, Apple Care. The company strategy is to designee and enhances its own operating systems, software, hardware and other services by providing customers with new developed technology.
Using the data and your own economic knowledge, assess the case for financing universities mainly through charging fees to their students.
Profit is a surplus in money after taking into account all costs incurred in buying and selling a product. Operating profit is the profit made after all direct and indirect costs have been paid. (Bized, 2010a) From NEXT’s company accounts, the operating profit has increased by £51.5m. This is a positive steady increase which has been achieved throughout the
THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS ECON1202/2291 QUANTITATIVE MEHODS A FINAL EXAMINATION SESSION 2 2008
Which of the following is not a requirement to become registered in PEO (Professional Engineers of Ontario)
Profit is the money that a business earns in revenue, minus investments, and the cost of salaries.
Economic Development: Growth is associated with structural, social change and change in the important institutions of the economy.
Explain what action a profit maximizing firm takes if marginal revenue is greater than marginal cost:
What is the effect on the equilibrium price and equilibrium quantity of orange juice if the price of apple juice decreases and the wage rate paid to orange grove workers increases?
SABMiller and Diageo are two largest beer producer in Africa. ”SABMiller, if combined with its partnership with France's Castel Group, sells roughly 60% Africa’s beer by volume. Diageo’s also expands its operation successfully that Senator Keg, its supercheap beer, is also now number two most popular beers in Kenya. As these giant brewers monopolized Africa’s beer market, it can be said that the market has an oligopoly market structure, and both pursue identic operations, so the market can be labeled as competitive. The interdependence that is happening between both brewers makes the competition happens. As SABMiller produces Impala that is half price from its previous beer Manica, Diageo produces Senator Keg to balance it. Diageo
know what it is exactly, in order to assess the extent to which the accounting profit reflects
Your paper should be between 1750 and 2500 words, in APA format and structured as follows:
In this way, the Fed manages price inflation in the economy. So bonds affect the U.S. economy by determining interest rates. This affects the amount of liquidity. This determines how easy or difficult it is to buy things on credit, take out loans for cars, houses or education, and expand businesses. In other words, bonds affect everything in the economy. Treasury bonds impact the economy by providing extra spending money for the government and consumers. This is because Treasury bonds are essentially a loan to the government that is usually purchased by domestic consumers. However, for a variety of reasons, foreign governments have been purchasing a larger percentage of Treasury bonds, in effect providing the U.S. government with a loan. This allows the government to spend more, which stimulates the economy. Treasury bonds also help the consumer. When there is a great demand for bonds, it lowers the interest rate.
This research topic is significant to the current property market in Singapore and its sudden increased demand for houses despite the economic downturn, exploring deeper as to whether the government policies were the real influential causes to this boom in property demand. It has relevance to the economic concepts of demand and supply, elasticity, inflation and monopolistic competition. This topic is worthy of investigation because it is a hot media topic in Singapore, and is widely debated in the country because it’s the most expensive household asset.[2]