A narrowly defined market will tend to make concentration appear while a broadly defined market will tend to make it appear O Lower; Higher O Less Concerning; Concerning O Higher; Lower O Concerning; Less Concerning
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- Suppose there are two types of persons: high-ability and low-ability. A particular diploma costs a high-ability person $8,000 and costs a low-ability person $20,000. Firms wish to use education as a screening device where they intend to pay $25,000 to workers without a diploma and $ K to those with a diploma. In what range must K be to make this an effective screening device?A young person entering the job market may be talented or untalented.Suppose that one-quarter of high school graduates are talented, and the rest untalented. A recent high school graduate, who knows whether or not he is talented, has the option of spending a year traveling overseas or enrolling at college (we will assume that he or she cannot do both) before applying for a job. An employer seeking to fill a job opening cannot know whether or not a job applicant is talented; all he knows is that the applicant either went to college or traveled overseas. The payoff an employer gets from hiring a worker depends solely on the talents of the hired worker (and not on his educational level), while the payoff to the youth depends on what he chose to do after high school, on his talents (because talented students enjoy their studies at college more than untalented students), and on whether or not he gets a job. These payoffs are described in the following tables (where the employer is the row…Global Wannabe (GW), a manufacturer of musical instruments, is eager to internationalize. New to international business, within the coming four years, senior management wants GW to generate at least one-third of its sales from abroad by establishing foreign marketing subsidiaries and production bases in low-cost countries to cut manufacturing costs. GW’s president, Larry Gerber, has appointed you to the task force charged with recruiting managers who can run GW’s operations abroad. 3.2 What measures can you take to enhance the prospects of placing women in international business jobs?
- Q-3 Are the following statement true of false ? You need to provide an aurgument for and against it why it is so.TRUE OR FALSE: 1. Generally, those who have higher wages are people with more human capital. Hence, more schooling as well as more work experience, generally lead to higher wages. 2. Smaller Gini ratio leads to more equal income distribution.Recently in the City of Seoul, building contractors lobbied the city council to pass an ordinace requiring all people working on residential dwellings be licensed by the city. Why would the contractors lobby for this requirement? A. to create legal barrier to entry B. to reduce the cost of building dwellings C. to guarantee that work on dwellings is of high quality D. to avoid informal settlers
- In a bad economy, a CEO has a 10% chance of meeting earnings estimates at regular effort, and a 15% chance at extraordinary effort. Extraordinary effort costs the CEO $10,000. How large a bonus should the CEO be paid for meeting estimates to encourage extraordinary effort? $10,000 $100,000 $200,000 $250,000 $1,000,000Only elves live inn Rivendell. Elves in Rivendell are expert jewelry makers. In the perfectly competitive market for jewelry in Rivendell, the demand and supply are given by QD = 10– 2P QS = 5P Jewelry made in Rivendell is also desired by humans who live in the world outside Rivendell. Jewelry can be sold to those humans in a perfectly competitive world market where Pw = 2. Jewelry can be traded within Rivendell and in the world outside. a) What will be the price at which trade of jewelry occurs? What quantity will be sold to elves in Rivendell and what quantity will be exported? b) Calculate the producer surplus and consumer surplus in Rivendell, and illustrate them in a demand and supply graph.Suppose a particular population has two kinds of health risks, high and low. Let the expected annual health care costs for the high risk be $10,000, and for the low risk, half that. If there are twice as many low risk as high risk individuals, and if the one insurer’s administrative load is 20%, what would the community rated premium be if everyone is compelled to and able to buy health insurance? Note: administrative load can be construed as the amount that the insurer has in costs to run the plans above and beyond the "health care costs."
