What is the opportunity cost of investing $10,000 of your own money in a business you wish to start?
What will be an ideal response?
The opportunity cost of your $10,000 is the money you lose because you cannot invest the money elsewhere.
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The economists at the New York Fed estimate that the return the typical person receives from an investment in a college education is
A) 4.5 percent per year. B) 12.5 percent per year. C) 15 percent per year. D) more than 40 percent per year.
Answer the following statements true (T) or false (F)
1) All else equal, firms with a few large plants are more likely to have lower average costs than firms with many small plants. 2) A plant is located at the cost-minimizing location when the marginal benefit of moving closer to the inputs is exactly double the marginal cost of moving closer. 3) If a firm is not directly paying all of the transportation costs, managers still have an incentive to minimize the sum of the production and transportation costs. 4) If a firm has two plants, one in a desirable location and one in an undesirable location, workers located in the desirable location are likely to be paid more. 5) If a firm has two plants and workers at Plant 1 are paid $40,000 a year and workers at Plant 2 are paid $45,000, the $5,000 difference in salary is a compensating wage differential.
New stock issues are typically handled by
A. commercial banks. B. insurance companies. C. investment banks. D. stock exchanges.
Which of the following is not an example of an efficiency-equity trade-off faced by economic agents?
A) According to an article by in the American Journal of Public Health by Edward Kaplan and Michael Merson of Yale University School of Medicine, the federal government's current method of allocating HIV-prevention resources is not cost-effective. Instead of allocating resources to states in proportion to reported AIDS cases, resources should flow first to those activities that prevent more infections per dollar and then to less and less effective combinations of programs and populations until funds are exhausted, even if it means that some populations would be left without any prevention services. B) Concerned about the falling birth rate, the French government has pledged more money for families with three children, in an effort to encourage working women to have more babies. C) The growing demand for corn by ethanol producers has led to a surge in the price of tortillas, a staple in the Mexican diet. To quell public outcry over rising tortilla prices, the Mexican government released government corn stocks at prices well below the market, and pressured states to impose price ceilings on tortillas. D) Some U.S. colleges cut back on merit scholarships since these programs siphon money from need-based programs, thus harming lower-income students with greater financial need.